[Artemisia] Any Italian/ Venitian Personas out there?

[Jackman-Brink, Julia]

If so you might find this interesting...

 

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The Medieval Review's latest posted review is for:

 

Labalme, Patricia H. and Laura Sanguineti White, eds., Linda L.

Carroll, trans. <i>Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.  Pp. xlii, 598. $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8018-8765-9.

 

This is 1 volume of excerpts from the _58_ volumes of diaries kept from 1496 to 1533 by Martin Sanudo, a wealthy Venetian with aspirations toward a political career. Up till now, none of this material has been available in English.

 

Sanudo clearly adored his native city, and the review says, "Quite simply, Sanudo was a history buff, perhaps the greatest that the pre- modern world has seen."

 

The main sections of the book are listed as:

  -  Sanudo on Sanudo (on his approach to recording history)

  -  The Venetians Govern (on the doges and the intricacies of domestic government)

  -  Crime and Justice

  -  Foreign Affairs

  -  Economic Networks and Institutions

  -  Society and Social life

  -  Religion and Superstition

  -  Humanism and the Arts

  -  Theater in Venice, Venice as Theater

 

There are also a number of appendixes that look very useful: the review lists "Venetian money and coinage, a comparative scale of annual wages and salaries, as well as an extensive glossary of governmental terms, weights and nomenclature for candles, ceremonial containers, fabrics and garments, boats, ships, and nautical terms, and musical instruments, as well as a short chronology of Sanudo's life and times..."

 

Needless to say, the reviewer is very enthusiastic about the book.

 

_The Medieval Review_ is set up as a mailing list; subscribe and you receive about 15-20 reviews a month. The reviews are long and detailed, and I at least learn a lot about history just by reading the reviews, even if I never go look for the books.

 

The website has subscription instructions and a "browse" feature, though that doesn't seem to be very up to date.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/

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