History of Venice: syllabus
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Week 1: Narratives of the Origins
Lecture I & II
Interactive lecture:
Patricia Fortini Brown, Implied Origins, in Venice and Antiquity. The Venetian Sense of the Past, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1997, pp.11-29
Week 2: Invention of the Lagoon
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Giovanni Caniato, Between salt and fresh waters, in Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of Knowledge, edited by C. A. Fletcher and T. Spencer, Cambridge University Press 2005, pp. 7-14
Visit to the Port of Venice and the MOSE: Ignazio Musu, Venice and its Lagoon: A Problem of Local Sustainable Development, in Sustainable Venice, edited by Ignazio Musu, Kluwer Publishers 2001, pp. 1-25
Week 3: Construction of the City
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Scenes of Daily Life, in Venice Triumphant. The Horizons of a Myth, pp.138-182
Visit to the Ghetto: Richard Sennet, Fear of Touching. The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice in Flesh and Stone. The Body and the City in Western Civilization, Norton and Company, New York and London 1994 pp.211-251
Week 4: Rise and Fortune
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Frederic Lane, The Conquest of Sea Power I and II, in Venice. A Maritime Republic, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1973, pp.23-43
Week 5: The Venetian Experience
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Robert Finley, The Immortal Republic: The Myth of Venice during the Italian Wars (1494-1530), "Sixteenth Century Journal", XXX/4, 1999, pp. 931-944
Visit to the Doge’s Palace: Patricia Fortini Brown, The Art of Public Life, in Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, Pearson, Prentice Hall 1997, pp. 65-89
Week 6: Decline and Fall
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Fernand Braudel, The City Centered Economies of the European Past: Before and After Venice, in Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century. The Perspectives of the World, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1992 pp 89-174
Week 7: Resumée
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Peter Burke, Early Modern Venice as a Center of Information and Communication in J.Martin and D. Romano (ed.), Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State 1297-1797, Johns Hopkins University Press pp.387-419
Week 8: Death and Risorgimento
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Margaret Plant, “Venice Will resist the Austrians at any cost”. Modernisation, Revolution, Resistance, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2002 pp.121-158
Week 9: New Urban Order
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Margaret Plant, The Year of the Winged Lion: 1914-1940, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, pp.271-310
Week 10: Divided City and Perspectives
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Margaret Plant, The double Millennium: the end of the Century, the end of Venice, in Venice. Fragile City 1797-1997, pp.423-456
Week 11: Representing Venice
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Lewis Mumford, Venice versus Utopia, in The City in History, Harcourt and Brace, New York 1961 pp. 321-329
Week 12: Saving Venice?
Lecture I
Interactive lecture
Lecture II
Presentations
Luca Pes (ed.), “Let Disney Save Venice”: a British Debate of 2006, manuscript 2008
Exam Week
presentation and discussion of research papers
(deadline: presentation of final version of research paper)
