Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice - 9780367140489

Taylor & Francis

With the playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this study sheds new light on his oeuvre, times, and Venetian patrician supporters by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place politically, economically, socially, and artistically. Linda Carroll uncovers a political grouping in the Venetian Republic in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that has heretofore gone unrecognized, the economic basis for it, and its expression in patronage of the arts. > With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, politically, economically, socially, and artistically. In a study of patronage in the broadest sense of the term, Linda Carroll draws on vast quantities of new archiv.