베네치아 공화국의 역사
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Benvenuti, Gino (1989). 《Le repubbliche marinare》. Rome: Newton Compton.
Rendina, Claudio (1984). 《I dogi. Storia e segreti》. Rome: Newton Compton.
Brown, Patricia Fortini. Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (2004)
Chambers, D.S. (1970). The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380-1580. London: Thames & Hudson. The best brief introduction in English, still completely reliable.
Contarini, Gasparo (1599). The Commonwealth and Gouernment of Venice. Lewes Lewkenor, trans. London: "Imprinted by I. Windet for E. Mattes." The most important contemporary account of Venice's governance during the time of its blossoming; numerous reprint editions.
Ferraro, Joanne M. Venice: History of the Floating City (Cambridge University Press; 2012) 268 pages. By a prominent historian of Venice. The "best book written to date on the Venetian Republic." Library Journal (2012).
Garrett, Martin. Venice: A Cultural History (2006). Revised edition of Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion (2001).
Grubb, James S. (1986). "When Myths Lose Power: Four Decades of Venetian Historiography." Journal of Modern History 58, pp. 43–94. The classic "muckraking" essay on the myths of Venice.
Howard, Deborah, and Sarah Quill. The Architectural History of Venice (2004)
Hale, John Rigby. Renaissance Venice (1974) (ISBN 0-571-10429-0)
Lane, Frederic Chapin. Venice: Maritime Republic (1973) (ISBN 0-8018-1445-6) standard scholarly history; emphasis on economic, political and diplomatic history
Laven, Mary. Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent (2002). The most important study of the life of Renaissance nuns, with much on aristocratic family networks and the life of women more generally.
Madden, Thomas, Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8018-7317-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8018-8539-6 (paperback).
Madden, Thomas, Venice: A New History. New York: Viking, 2012. ISBN 978-0-670-02542-8. A fascinating and approachable history by a distinguished historian.
Mallett, M. E., and Hale, J. R. The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State, Venice c. 1400 to 1617 (1984) (ISBN 0-521-03247-4)
Martin, John Jeffries, and Dennis Romano (eds). Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. (2002) Johns Hopkins UP. The most recent collection on essays, many by prominent scholars, on Venice.
Drechsler, Wolfgang (2002). "Venice Misappropriated." Trames 6(2):192–201. A scathing review of Martin & Romano 2000; also a good summary on the most recent economic and political thought on Venice. For more balanced, less tendentious, and scholarly reviews of the Martin-Romano anthology, see The Historical Journal (2003) Rivista Storica Italiana (2003).
Muir, Edward (1981). Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. Princeton UP. The classic of Venetian cultural studies; highly sophisticated.
Rosland, David. Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001) how writers (especially English) have understood Venice and its art
Tafuri, Manfredo. Venice and the Renaissance (1995) architecture
1204년 콘스탄티노플 함락시 베네치아로 가져온, 성 마르코 성당 앞 청동제 말 (복제품)
두칼레 궁전 그림, 14세기 후반
그리스 나플리오의 팔라미디 요새. 베네치아는 1686년~1715년 간의 2차 점령기 동안 이를 건설하였으며, 이러한 요새들을 통하여 무역로를 보호하였다.
동지중해상 베네치아 영토, 1450년
베네치아 공화국의 영토. 진한 적색은 15세기 초에, 적색은 16세기 초에, 분홍색은 단속적으로 획득한 영토. 황색은 15세기동안 베네치아가 지배한 해역. 황색 선은 주 교역로, 보라색 사각형은 주요 교역시 및 상업 식민지
지오반 바티스타 티에폴로, 베네치아에 바다의 부를 주는 넵튠, 1748년-1750년. “고귀한 도시”의 부와 국력은 해상 지배에 근거했으므로, 이 그림은 베네치아 공화국의 국력을 비유한다.
프랑스군에 항복하기 1년 전, 1796년의 베네치아 공화국