Teaching code

4S02122

Teacher

Federico Barbierato

Coordinator

Federico Barbierato

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• History of the Republic of Venice (p) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY

Period

1 A, 1 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The goal of the course is to provide the main coordinates of the history of the city of Venice and the territories subject to it between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, to include the history of the Republic in the political, diplomatic and international economic dynamics, to focus on some issues relating to the cultural dimension (learned and popular) including the role of Venice as a center of processing of religious dissent, to highlight the political particularities of the Venetian experience in a perspective of comparison with other Italian and European realities.

Prerequisites and basic notions

A basic knowledge of the European history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age is sufficient for admission to the course.

Program

Course Content:
• The political and administrative organization of the Venetian state
• The patriciate (structure and composition, social role)
• The economy (markets and merchants, the economy of city and of the mainland, the merchant fleet)
• The administration of justice in Venice and in the territories of the State
• Society and ways of life (daily life, consumption, food, diseases and cures, beliefs etc.)
• Venice in the international context
• Religion (the ecclesiastical organization and folk religion. The inquisition and heresy).
• Publishing and book trade
• Public opinion and its control (newspapers and journals, ridotti and coffee-houses, ambassadors, State Inquisitors, forbidden books etc.)
• Culture (the arts and sciences, academies, the printing press, popular culture)
• Spaces and times of daily life
• Myth and anti-myth of Venice

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The lessons will have a hybrid structure. The first part of the course, which will be mainly based on lectures, will then be flanked by seminar lectures that will allow direct analysis of the sources, their discussion and visits to archives so that it will be possible to become directly aware of historiographic practice relating to the Venetian Republic

Learning assessment procedures

The examination will take place in oral form. Students must demonstrate that they have understood the structures of Venetian history, that they are able to correctly place problems and events, and that they know the most relevant themes of the historiographic debate. The evaluation shall be assigned in 30/30. The examination test will be the same for attending and not attending students.

Evaluation criteria

Knowledge of the history of the Venetian Republic and of the chosen book, exposition skills, critical reading skills and participation in the seminar activity will be assessed.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The grade will be an expression of the skills demonstrated during the final interview, both in relation to knowledge of the general history of Venice and to monographic in-depth stu

Exam language

Italiano (o, su richiesta degli studenti, francese o inglese)