Venice Besieged : Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494–1534 (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; The immortal republic: the myth of Venice during the Italian Wars (1494-1530); The myth of Venice in Guicciardini's History of Italy: senate orations on princes and the republic; Politics and history in the diary of Marino Sanuto; The Venetian republic as a gerontocracy: age and politics in the Renaissance; Crisis and crusade in the Mediterranean: Venice, Portugal, and the Cape route to India (1498-1509); Venice, the Po expedition and the end of the League of Cambrai, 1509-1510; The foundation of the ghetto: Venice, the Jews, and the war of the League of Cambrai; Politics and the family in Renaissance Venice: the election of Doge Andrea Gritti; Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti , the war of Cambrai, and the rise of Habsburg hegemony, 1509-1530; 'I am the servant of the Turkish sultan': Venice, the Ottoman empire, and Christendom, 1523-1534; Index.