Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past

Yale University Press
Patricia F. Brown
ISBN: 0300067003
price: $65.00   hardcover

Venice was unique among major Italian cities in having no classical past of its own. As such, it experienced the Renaissance in a manner quite different from that of Florence or Rome. In this pathbreaking book, Patricia Fortini Brown focuses on Venice's Golden Age--from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century--and shows how it was influenced by antiquity, by its Byzantine heritage, and by its own historical experience.