The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity

摘要

Operating in different ways, early modern Venetian prints reinforced the inhabitants' identification with their miraculous city, its social types, and rank in the societal order. In this discussion of the activity of the Venetian press, Bronwen Wilson shows how the heterogeneous population of Vene tians found and articulated a collective identity in the printed production of maps of Venice, costume books, ephemeral celebrations, and portraits.