The Venetian Bride Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and its Empire

by Fortini Brown, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780192894571
• ISBN10: 0192894579
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192647351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-06-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Patricia Brown

Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emerita at Princeton University, was Slade Professor of Fine Arts University of Cambridge in 2001 and served as president of the Renaissance Society of America. Honors and awards include Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships; the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome; the British Academy Serena Medal in Italian Studies; and the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America. A trustee of Save Venice, Inc., Brown has published extensively on Venetian art and culture. Her award-winning books include Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (1998); Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (1996); Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (1997); and Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (2004).

Table of Contents

Part I: Birthrights
1. A Future Bride
2. A Bitter Request
3. Recovery
4. Restitution
5. Honor and Disgrace
Part II: A Melded Bloodline
6. The Venetian Bride
7. Exile
8. The Capitano Grande
9. The Return
10. The Sacrifice
Part III: Lineages
11. Wars and Peace
12. Suitable Alliances
13. The Cardinal
14. Retrenchment
15. The Legacy
Epilogue