Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 - The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State

Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the behavior of the ruling families of Brescia! a rich and strategically vital city under Venetian rule! during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Money, weights, and measures; Introduction: the historiographical background; Part I. The Structural Framework: 1. Defining boundaries; Part II. Consolidation of the Ruling Class: 2. The evolution of the urban ruling class: profile of a composite elite; 3. Family and power: strategies of consolidation; 4. Marriage bonds, patrimonial strategies, and family relations; Part III. Aristocratization and the Governing Policies of the Venetian State: 5. Keeping civil order: families and factions; 6. The benefits of civic office; 7. The challenge to oligarchy: the''revolution of the discontented'; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Joanne M. Ferraro, Ferraro Joanne M., Ferraro Joanne M.
• Assisted by: Gigliola Fragnito (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2003
• EAN: 9780521531177
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53117-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H; Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599