«Studi Veneziani» nn. 87-88 (2023)

Studies
• Ermanno Orlando, From Openness To Restriction. Mixed Marriages Between Greek And Latin Christians In Late Medieval Venice
• Francesco Bettarini, L’investitura notarile imperiali auctoritate a Venezia alla fine del Medioevo. Un paradosso guridico?
• Mario Bulgarelli, I Foscari alla borsa di Londra e Bruges (1463-1496)
• Robert G. Finlay, Noble lies: myth and reality in Gasparo Contarini’s Venice
• Franco De Checchi, Nicolò Aurelio Cancelliere grande della Repubblica di Venezia
• Cosimo Pantaleoni, I galeotti dello Stato da Mar veneziano tra sussistenza e crimine alla fine del XVI secolo: rapina ed economia sotterranea tramite i processi delle Cariche da Mar
• Gino Benzoni, Venezia: realtà che si fa mito
• Alessandro Cont, Il sistema delle nobiltà nell’area padano-veneto-friulana (1659-1714)
• Paolo Alberto Rismondo, I baroni romani Orsini e Venezia, Cesare Zoilo, il «Cavalier Tedeschi», e l’accademia Filarmonica di Verona
• Valeria Chilese – Marcella Lorenzini, Tenore di vita di una famiglia nobile veneta: Del Bene (XIX secolo)

Notes and Documents
• Denise-Chloe Alevizou, A source of the Codex Marcianus Graecus VII 22 (1466) miniature illustrations by Georgios Klontzas
• Antonella Barzazi, Gaetano Cozzi e le declinazioni di un trinomio: cultura, politica, religione
• Giuseppe Trebbi, Chiesa e Stato a Venezia nelle opere di Gaetano Cozzi e nella storiografia più recente
• Lorenzo Tomasin, Gianfranco Folena. Incontri di culture e lingue alla Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Reviews
• Antonio Lazzarini, Alberi da matadura per le navi di venezia. la vizza di san marco o bosco di somadida (M. Pitteri)
• Come la marea. Successi e sconfitte durante il dogado de Leonardo Loredan (1501-1521) a cura di Donatella Calabi, Giuseppe Gullino, Gherardo Ortalli (J.-Cl. Hocquet)
• Font cipriote per la caduta di Famagosta a cura di P. Kitromilidis (A. Tzavara)
• Gherardo Ortalli, Venezia inventata. Verità e leggenda della Serenissima (E. Ivetic)
• Renard Gluzman, Venetian Shipping. From the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453-1571 (E. Ivetic)
• Bernardo Sagredo, Lepanto prima e dopo la battaglia 1570-1573, a cura di V. Venturini e M. Zorzi (E. Ivetic)
• Géraud Poumarède, L’Empire de Venise et les Turcs, XVIe-XVIIe siècles (E. Ivetic)
• Cristina Setti, Una repubblica per ogni porto. Venezia e lo Stato da Mar negli itinerari dei Sindici inquisitori in Levante (secoli XVI-XVII) (E. Ivetic)
• Marco Pellegrini, Venezia e la Terraferma (E. Ivetic)
• Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic. Political Conflict and Social Contestation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Venice, eds M. van Gelder and C. Judde de Larivière (E. Ivetic)
• Maud Harivel, Les élections politiques dans la République de Venise (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Entre justice distributive et corruption (E. Ivetic)

Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society

Expats-Foresti. Foreigners in Venice in the Modern Age. A Fluctating Population

The Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society in collaboration with the Deputazione per la Storia Patria per le Venezie, the RiVe Study Center of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University Venice and the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire of the Université de Rouen Normandie is proposing a conference dedicated to foreigners in Venice in the modern age.

The program sees a rich harvest of papers, divided into four thematic sessions and spread over three days, two of which are at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

The sessions cover Nations/Communities/Esilii (with Elisa Andretta, José Pardo Tomas, Isabella Cecchini, Alessia Ceccarelli, Katerina B. Korrè, Igor Melani, Alana Mailes); Religious Alterities/Dissensions (with Magnus Ressel, Mario Infelise, Rachele Scuro, Marija Andrić, Bruno Pomara Saverino); the Structures/Institutions/Interactions (with Jean-François Chauvard, Rosa Salzberg, Sandra Toffolo, Massimo Galtarossa, Teresa Bernardi, Francesco Zambonin); the Biographies (with Claudia Terribile, Flavio Rurale, Despina Vlassi, Vittorio Mandelli).

The speakers come from a variety of universities and research institutions: University of Udine, CNRS Paris, CSIC Barcelona, CNR-ISEM Rome, University of Rome-La Sapienza, University of Patras, University of Florence, Trinity College Cambridge, Universität Bremen, University Ca’ Foscari Venice, Istorijski institut Beograd, Universitat de València, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Trento, University of St Andrews, University of Padua.

Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society

The Institute, since its establishment in 1955, has aimed to be a national and international reference for the study of the history of Venice. Due to its exceptional length and complexity, the history of Venice encompasses several other histories: Byzantine history, the history of Italy, the history of the Mediterranean, and European history. Venice is of significant importance for all areas surrounding the Mediterranean, from its origins to its demise in 1797. In many respects, it represents a unique history on a global scale. Venice was a state situated at the crossroads of civilisations, constantly in confrontation with the Byzantine Empire and, later, the Ottoman Empire and Islam in general, in a way no other European state experienced. For centuries, Venice was an Italian state free from foreign subjugation, a diplomatic hub in Europe, and an essential artistic and cultural reference point.

The Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society was founded in 1955. In addition to organising conferences, seminars, and study days, often in collaboration with national and international universities and research centres, the Institute publishes the scientific journal Studi Veneziani. Originally founded in 1959 as the Institute’s Bulletin, it changed its name in 1965. The Institute also houses an important Microfilm Library, which, in addition to reproducing documents and manuscripts from Italian and foreign libraries and archives, includes significant diplomatic series: the dispatches of the Este, French, Genoese, English, Savoy, Sforza, Medici, Parma, Papal, and Imperial ambassadors.

Since 2021, the Institute has been directed by Egidio Ivetic.

Canaletto, The Return of the Bucintoro to the Wharf on Ascension Day, 1732.

The Institute is a centre for historical research, but it also embodies a distinctive culture of engagement with the past, continuously striving to reconstruct, interpret, and reflect upon a place — Venice — that is unique in both history and the collective imagination of the world.

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STUDI VENEZIANI

Studi Veneziani is an interdisciplinary study journal dedicated to the history of Venice and the Venetian state, as well as the expressions of Venetian civilisation in the realms of politics, institutions, society, culture, art, and literature. It publishes articles, documents, notes, and reviews. Founded as the Institute’s Bulletin in 1959, it has been published under its current name since 1965. The journal has been directed by Gian Piero Bognetti, Agostino Pertusi, Gaetano Cozzi, and Gino Benzoni. It is currently directed by Egidio Ivetic, the director of the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society.

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MICROFILM LIBRARY

In addition to microfilms of individual documents and manuscripts of direct or indirect Venetian interest held in Italian and foreign libraries and archives, the microfilm library possesses entire and impressive diplomatic series, including the dispatches of the Este, French, Genoese, English, Savoy, Sforza, Medici, Parma, Papal, and Imperial ambassadors.

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Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society

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Egidio Ivetic

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Books at San Giorgio | Studi Veneziani

May sees the resumption of the review that aims to promote and publicise the Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s publishing work. On Friday 3 May, in conjunction with the seminar Il Mediterraneo di Napoli, il Mediterraneo di Venezia, the academic journal Studi Veneziani, published by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, will be presented. This will be an opportunity to present the latest volumes (LXXXV-LXXXVI), once again highlighting the extraordinary wealth of topics addressed and the interdisciplinary approach of the only periodical entirely devoted to the history of Venice, the Venetian State and the expressions of Venetian civilisation in the form of politics, institutions, society, culture, art and literature.

Will present Marco Pellegrini

Will participate Egidio Ivetic

Neapolitan Mediterranean, Venetian Mediterranean

The seminar aims to highlight two perspectives and ways of being a Mediterranean state through the prism of medieval and modern history. Venice and Naples are two great capitals of the ancient sea and are above all two
unique places, cities that were able to express their own specific civilisations.
They are states located in the heart of the Mediterranean, both on the border with different worlds. The Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice are also, in their own way, declinations of the history of Italy, the
history of the Mediterranean and indeed of Europe. The seminar is also a proposal to examine the inverse, Mediterranean perspectives of these civilisations.
The approach is thus comparative, intertwined with wide-ranging visions and interpretations of history and culture.

On the occasion of the seminar, the latest issues of Studi Veneziani, published by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, will be presented.

Appointments for Cini Ambassador

The cycle of guided tours dedicated exclusively to Cini Ambassadors resumes in March, with a meeting curated by Egidio Ivetic, director of the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society – one of the first institutes of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, founded in 1955 and dedicated to the study of the history of Venice through the collection of documentation, research, the organisation of academic encounters and the publication of the journal Studi Veneziani.

During the opening week of the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, there will be several initiatives promoted and hosted by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: on Thursday 18 April, Cini Ambassadors may participate exclusively in the opening on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore of the following exhibitions: in Le Stanze del Vetro (in partnership with Pentagram Stiftung) there will be the exhibition 1912-1930 Il vetro di Murano e la Biennale di Venezia; the spaces of the former Piscina Gandini will host the exhibition In Nebula by the artist Chu Teh-Chun, promoted by the Swiss foundation of the same name; the collaboration with the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery will also continue with an exhibition of previously unpublished works by the American artist Alex Katz, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, and at Palazzo Cini, on the second floor of the Gallery, there will be an exhibition dedicated to the Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth. At Le Stanze della Fotografia, two exhibitions are planned during the Art Biennale: a major retrospective on Helmut Newton and an exhibition of photographs selected through a call for the contributions of young photographers.

On 7 May, will witness the presentation at the Centro Studi del Vetro (‘Glass Study Centre’), the most important and complete General Archive of Venetian Glass, founded in 2012 by the joint initiative of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, which has recently transferred its collections to the renovated Sala Messina, following major restoration work carried out with the contribution of the Interregional Superintendency for Public Works for Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Pentagram Stiftung.

Finally, on 18 June the Cini Ambassadors will discover the new and extraordinary renovation of the Longhena Library with open shelving, reserved exclusively for the study of the history of the Republic of Venice in its historical, cultural and artistic aspects. To achieve this, the room itself has been enriched with publications from the Institute of Letters and that of Venice and the East, and in particular, from the Institute for the History of the Venetian Society and State, thanks to which it was also possible to acquire the major book collection of the historian Alberto Tenenti (1924-2002) in 2017.

Seminar Civilisation of Venice and the Venetian State. The politics of the Serenissima between Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean (1530–1797)

The Republic of Venice was a single state, stretching between Europe and the Mediterranean, from West to East, and for this reason it was among the first to develop a foreign policy understood in modern terms, through the work of ambassadors, confidants and spies, coupled with a full awareness
– at the highest governmental levels – of the dynamics at play in the various contexts where La Serenissima was situated. After decades in which political history has been neglected in favour of other research areas, often influenced by passing fads, with the second appointment of the cycle of seminars Civilisation of Venice and the Venetian State, promoted by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, we wish to resume the discourse on the foreign policy of La Serenissima in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, attempting to consider the strategic choices of the Republic from a comparative perspective. In contrast to the neutrality pursued in Italy, understood in the most dated historiography as a retreat, Venice’s Mediterranean policy and the fact that the domination of
an entire sector, such as the Adriatic and Ionian seas, gave authority and prestige to the Republic on a European level, has not been fully evaluated.
The same also goes for the repeated wars and various periods of peace with the Ottoman Empire, each with its own connotations on the diplomatic and strategic level. A vital element, that of La Serenissima, confirmed by its wholehearted participation in the joint attack against the Ottomans
in the late-seventeenth century, to define the new order between powers in the Balkans and thus in the eastern Mediterranean. The stability achieved towards the Ottoman adversary/partner, from 1718 onwards, was the ideal balance, the ideal outcome of a long history of conflict and coexistence.
But the greatest and most fatal challenge for the Republic, as we know, did not come from the Mediterranean but from Europe towards the end of the eighteenth century.

«Studi Veneziani» n. 83-84 (2021)

Edited by the Istituto per la Storia della Società e dello Stato Veneziano Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa–Rome, 2022

For Gino Benzoni

• Egidio Ivetic, Per Gino Benzoni
• Maurizio Sangalli, Per Gino Benzoni. Una vita di Storia, di storie, e di parole
• Maurice Aymard, Gino Benzoni storico
• Andrea Zannini, Gino Benzoni e la storia di Venezia
• Maria Antonietta Visceglia, Il Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani e Gino Benzoni: una lunga collaborazione
• Gino Benzoni. Bibliografia, compiled by Michele Moramarco

Studies

• Andrea Nanetti, The sad story of the poor living of the monastic community of mount Sinai under weak venetian and manipulative papal rules of law (1211-1276)
• Martina Calì, Narrative and rhetoric of prudence in early modern Venice: critical voices of the Stato da Terra
• Maria Celotti, Quando le Procuratorie Nuove erano case: residenti, intrusi e ospiti del palazzo nel Settecento

Notes and Documents

• Maud Harivel, Equality and merit: political elections in the Republic of Venice
• Andrea Donati, Orazio Vecellio primogenito di Tiziano: precisazioni e aggiunte
• Alex Rodriguez Suarez, Casting bells for the east: An unknown aspect of the artistic and commercial history of Venice

Reviews

• Gherardo Ortalli, Venezia inventata. Verità e leggenda della Serenissima (G. Gullino)
• Piotr Chmiel, Rethinking the concept of Antemurale: Venetian Diplomacy in Respect of the Ottoman World (1573-1645) (M. Santoro)
• Antonio Lazzarini, Boschi, legnami, costruzioni navali. L’Arsenale di Venezia fra xvi e xviii secolo (S. Ciriacono)
• Despoina Michalaga, Contributo alla storia ecclesiastica del Peloponneso durante la seconda venetocrazia, 1685-1715 (A. Tzavara)
• Giancarlo Petrella, I libri nella torre. La biblioteca di Castel Thun, una collezione nobiliare tra xv e xx secolo (D. Perocco)
• Sergio Marinelli, Storia della prospettiva significante (F. Pagotto)
• Paolo Leoncini, Letteratura veneta tra ‘900 e 2000. Saggi su Valeri, Facco de Lagarda, Noventa, Piovene, Barbaro, Tomizza, Ghirardi, Trotta, Dal Zotto, Carrer, Giusti (G. Carlesso)

Seminar “The Greater Mediterranean, its History and its Present”

The Mediterranean has once again become the centre of the world’s geopolitical dynamics. From the Italian perspective, we speak of the Mediterranean and the ‘Greater Mediterranean’, which is a broader horizon converging more towards the ancient sea. Here the political aspects are complex and manifold: from Exclusive Economic Zones and the sustainable exploitation of marine resources to communications not only by sea but also by computer, the use of renewable resources, tourism as viewed on a Mediterranean-wide scale, the movement of people, war emergencies as well as national and international security issues.

Italy measures itself against all this from day to day. This is the norm for a country that lies at the heart of the Mediterranean. And behind the present lies a long history in which Italy has played a major role for centuries. A history in which special significance has been attached to Venice, the Venetian state and civilisation for centuries. In the history of the Mediterranean, Venice is indeed a key protagonist. It started out from a remote point in the Mediterranean space; it expanded and integrated into it, and then it dominated the eastern part of the sea with its navy and trade, representing a gateway between the Orient and Europe. Indeed, it is in Venice that the Greater Mediterranean finds its most remote link.

Setting out from these assumptions, it is worth questioning how much today’s reality is mirrored in the history of the Mediterranean and that of Venetian Italy. And to what extent these histories are reappearing in renewed forms in today’s geopolitical dynamics. These are questions that we shall attempt to answer in the seminar The Greater Mediterranean: its History and its Present, organised by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society.