Main entry:

Wills, Garry, 1934- author.

Title & Author:

Venice: lion city : the religion of empire / Garry Wills.

Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2001]
©2001

Description:

415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-397) and index.
Athens of the Renaissance -- pt. 1. Imperial disciplines -- ch. 1. Contract with Mark -- ch. 2. Declarations of independence -- ch. 3. The lion's wings -- ch. 4. The lion's tread -- ch. 5. Disciplines of time -- ch. 6. Disciplines of work -- pt. 2. Imperial personnel -- ch. 7. Doge -- ch. 8. Patricians (nobili) -- ch. 9. Notables (cittadini) -- ch. 10. Golden youth -- ch. 11. commoners (popolani) -- ch. 12. Women -- ch. 13. Artists -- ch. 14. Outsiders -- pt. 3. Imperial piety -- ch. 15. Christ's blood -- ch. 16. Christ's cross -- ch. 17. Venetian annunciations -- ch. 18. The vulnerable Mary -- ch. 19. Mark : the relic -- ch. 20. Mark : the life -- ch. 21. War saints : George and Theodore -- ch. 22. Plague saints -- ch. 23. The other lion : Jerome's -- pt. 4. Imperial learning -- ch. 24. Franciscan learning -- ch. 25. Dominican learning -- ch. 26. Book learning -- ch. 27. Learned architecture : Codussi -- ch. 28. Learned architecture : Sansovino, Palladio -- ch. 29. Learned sculpture -- ch. 30. Learned politics -- ch. 31. Learned history -- Epilogue : a farewell to empire.

Summary:

A historical perspective on Venice during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is told through its relationship with art and its connection to religion, and details the labor, warfare, prayer, and discipline of the time.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0684871904
9780684871905

Subject:

15.70 history of Europe.
Havensteden.
Venice (Italy) History.
Venice (Italy) Church history.
Venise (Italie) Histoire.
Italy Venice.

Form/genre:

Church history.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218992
Call No.: DG676 .W5 2001
Status: Available