Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986. / Includes indexes. Publisher's no.: UMI 8711146. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [236]-249).

Lawyers have widely been recognized as playing a role in the transition from the medieval to the modem state. Their presence in Renaissance Venetian politics, however, remains largely unexplored. Relying primarily on a prosopographical analysis, the thesis explores the various roles played by lawyers, dividing those roles into three main categories: diplomats, territorial governors, and domestic legislators. What emerges is a clear pattern of significant involvement by legally trained patricians in the Venetian political system. Noble lawyers were most often ambassadors, serving in many of the principal courts inside and outside of Italy as Venice was extending her influence on the Italian peninsula. They also served as administrators of Venetian rule throughout the Venetian terraferma (mainland) state. Lastly, their domestic political officeholding further confirms their continuing participation, as they held many of the most important domestic offices throughout the Quattrocento. The thesis ends with short biographies of each of the nearly three-dozen lawyers who make up this study, as well as chronologies of the offices they held. These chronologies include archival references for each office.

Teilw. zugl.: Venezia, Universit̀a IUAV, Diss., 2006.

Between the conquest of Padua in 1405 and its temporary rebellion in 1509, Venice built the strongest territorial state in Italy, expanding its apparatus of government to incorporate originally heterogeneous lands into an administrative whole. Military defeat in 1509 allowed Padua's secession, an anachronistic return to separate identity motivated by its political class's resentment at subjection to Venice: denied representation in mainstream public life, they enjoyed illusory local administrative autonomy. In military terms Padua's passage under Venetian rule was marked by the adaptation of the terraferma provinces' systems of defence to their new territorial configuration, achieved firatly by the creation of a permanent, professional army. Its units had no particular territorial affiliation; their recruitment, conditions of service and dislocation were decided by central authority. The province of Padua, strategically placed in the terraferma, served to accomodate companies in transit and long-term billetting, and to supply conscript auxiliary forces. Local fortifications were of secondary importance, and in consequence poorly maintained. The army was the main recipient of terraferma taxation, which was dogged by organizational difficulties, in the assignment of income to spending, and in co-ordination between capital and provinces, with a frequent excess of expenditure over effective revenue. Gross imbalance in the distribution of taxation, with delay and abuse in its collection, characterized Padua's fiscal system. Growing intervention by central government, and the diminution of Paduans' residual fiscal competence, were the constant elements in Venice's largely unsuccessful remedial action. Tax therefore became a point of conflict; Venice grew impatient with Paduan inefficiency and illwill, the Paduan political class showed anger at encroachment by Venetian authority, and fear for the loss of the city's fiscal privilege.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Zürich, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Just below the surface of A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, a theme is slightly distinguishable. As the work progresses, this theme becomes omnipresent, in the narrator under the guise of a wish; this theme is travel. / At first glance, it is the very movement of travelling (real and imaginary) which propels the text. Although all Proustian characters travel, the richness of this theme is most eloquently expressed in Marcel. For this character, travelling takes on many forms: dreamed, accomplished, and written; it becomes at once real and mythic. / It has often been said that the Recherche told the story of a literary career. Given this, it seems that the search for writing is an integral part of this narrative of travel. Let us say that the very construction of the story, which is more related to the imaginary than to a real description of Venice, emphasizes the transition of reading to writing. It is this passage we wish to illustrate in this master's thesis; for Marcel, the act of reading is intimately connected to his desire of travel.

Thesis (doctoral)--Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universität zu Breslau, 1933. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of Akron, School of Music, 2009. / "August, 2009." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 11/11/2009) Advisor, Brooks A. Toliver; Faculty Reader, Galen S. Karriker; School Director, William K. Guegold; Dean of the College, James M. Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Orientador: Luiz Cesar Marques Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T18:03:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_LarissaSousade_M.pdf: 23224889 bytes, checksum: 87808a1fa3818c985298723245553554 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A pesquisa apresenta como principal objeto de análise a obra De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590), do italiano Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601). Uma segunda edição foi publicada sob o título Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo em 1598. Essa apresenta um projeto diverso da primeira, tendo seu conteúdo iconográfico ampliado, ao contrário dos comentários do autor, omitidos ou simplesmente reduzidos. O surgimento deste gênero de publicação, os chamados "livros de vestuário", ocorreram durante o século XVI, juntamente ao interesse cartográfico e enciclopédico. A época do autor presenciou a rápida expansão da imprensa em Veneza, dos studioli, os cabinets de curiosité e os Wunderkämmern, além de acompanhar a criação de uma rede interligada de publicações que firmavam um repertório de "tipos sociais" repetidos ao longo desses anos e que auxiliava na visão que, sobretudo os venezianos, tinham do restante do mundo. O teor da obra, grosso modo, permeia os costumes - em um sentido bastante amplo - aliados à representação de uma série de trajes. Vecellio não apenas representa a vestimenta europeia, como também inclui exemplares asiáticos, africanos e americanos. Essa antologia do vestuário mundial também é considera por alguns autores como a primeira história moderna do vestuário, já que são concebidas imagens comentadas de povos da Antiguidade até o século do autor, em um amplo espectro geográfico. No presente trabalho intenta-se perceber, portanto, o projeto da obra vecelliana. A partir de três ensaios discutiremos a respeito da ruína de valores antigos e da mutação (a veste aliada ao mito veneziano, a questão da boa governança e prosperidade das cidades, a relação entre antigo e moderno etc.); em seguida, problematizaremos a postura de Veneza ao projetar uma imagem positiva da cidade em meio a um contexto conturbado, bem como o modo vecelliano de dialogar com essa questão mediante a apresentação de "tipos sociais" (doge, virgem veneziana, cortesã...) associados à auto-imagem do Estado; e, por fim, apresentamos um panorama de sua obra, cujo objetivo será compreender a postura e o discurso de nosso autor frente à alteridade, discutindo, assim, algumas noções e a problemática do "Eu" que se define a partir do "Outro". Em correlato, propõe-se a tradução parcial do conteúdo da obra para uma versão portuguesa (inédita e comentada), no intuito de contribuir para as discussões teóricas - ínfimas em nossa realidade brasileira -, sem abandonar, entretanto, o escopo aqui descrito / Abstract: This research presents as main object of analysis the book De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo (1590), by the Italian author Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601). A second edition was published with the title Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo in 1598. This edition presents a project different from the first one. Its iconographic content is expanded, whereas the author's comments are either reduced or even omitted. The emergence of this type of publication, called costume books, occurred during the Sixteenth Century, along with the cartographic and encyclopedic interest. The period in which the author lived, witnessed the rapid expansion of the printing press in Venice, as well as of the studioli, the cabinets de curiosité and Wunderkammern. Apart from that, those years followed the creation of an interconnected network of publications that established a repertoire of "social types", repeated throughout the years, and helped in the idea that, especially the Venetians, had about the rest of the world. The content of the work covers the habits - in a very broad sense - combined with the representation of a variety of costumes. Vecellio does not only represent European clothing, but he also includes Asian, African and American costumes. This anthology of world clothing is also considered, by some authors, as the first modern history of costume, since it covers commented images from Antiquity until the time of the author, in a broad geographical spectrum. In this text we aim to understand the project of the Vecellian work. Starting with three essays of the current study, we will discuss the ruin of the old values and the mutation (clothing associated with the Venetian myth, the issue of good governance and prosperity of cities, the relationship between ancient and modern etc.); then we will problematize the posture of Venice, which projects a positive image of the city within a turbulent context, as well as the Vecellian way of discussing this subject while presenting the "social types" (doge, Venetian virgin, courtesan...), associated with the State's self-image; finally, we will present an overview of his work, whose purpose will be to understand the author's posture and the discourse towards otherness, discussing some problematic notions of the "I", which is defined from the confrontation with the "Other". Furthermore, together with this, we propose a partial translation of the content of the book into a Portuguese version (unpublished and commented), with the intention of contributing to the theoretical debate - very restricted in our Brazilian reality -, without abandoning, however, the scope described herein / Mestrado / Historia da Arte / Mestra em História