Venice's Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia (repost)
Stephen D. Bowd, "Venice's Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia"
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN 10: 0674051203 | 2011 | PDF | 374 pages | 3.6 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN 10: 0674051203 | 2011 | PDF | 374 pages | 3.6 MB
By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire was the city of Brescia which, together with its surrounding territory, lay in a key frontier zone between the politically powerful Milanese and the economically important Germans.