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

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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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