HISTORY OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC

The discipline belongs to the interdisciplinary educational activities of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme of History. These activities prepare students to reconstruct and to understand, by means of critical investigation, the sequence of different societies and their reciprocal connections through events and phenomena of the past. The instructional goal of the course is to give the basic knowledge of the most significant moments in the history of the Serenissima in Early Modern Age and in particular of the history of her political and judicial institutions.

The attendance, the active participation at the course and the individual study allow the students: 1) to acquire the knowledge and the understanding of the main characteristics of the history of the Serenissima in Early Modern Age and in particular of the history of her political and judicial institutions; 2) to learn to compare the institutional model of the Republic with the most important European institutional frameworks; 3) to be able to read critically studies of Venetian institutional history.

Knowledge of the general frameworks of the History of Political Institutions, even if the student hasn’t passed yet the specific examination.

The course of History of the Republic of Venice focuses in particular on the history of her institutions and on the relationships between the forms of power that characterized the polycentric State of Early Modern Age and the different forms of justice that placed it in relation with the society of the time.
For students who can’t attend the course the contents of the programme will be the same. The students will study them through the texts indicated in the section 'Referral texts' of this Syllabus.

The students who attend the course will prepare the exam through the notes of the lessons and the documents examined in them.

The students who can’t attend the course will study these two texts:
1) C. Povolo, Un sistema giuridico repubblicano: Venezia e il suo stato territoriale (secoli XV-XVIII), in Il diritto patrio. Tra diritto comune e codificazione (secoli XVI-XIX), Roma, Viella, 2006, pp. 297-353
https://www.academia.edu/2466326/Un_sistema_giuridico_repubblicano_Venezia_e_il_suo_stato_territoriale_secc._XV-XVIII _
2) C. Povolo, La stanza di Andrea Trevisan. Amore, furore e inimicizie nella Venezia di fine Cinquecento, Isola Vicentina, Quaderni di Valdilonte, 2018
https://www.academia.edu/37926544/Claudio_Povolo_La_Stanza_di_Andrea_Trevisan._Amore_furore_e_inimicizie_nella_Venezia_di_fine_Cinquecento

The examination will be oral and will last about 30 minutes. It will aim at verifying the assimilation of the contents of the course and the critical ability of the student.

Frontal lessons (lecture-style presentation).

Italian

Teaching language: Italian.
In a continuous interaction with the students, during the course, as often as necessary, it will be given a supplemental bibliography and it twill be possible also to examine some texts online.

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