The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice - Rilegato

Davis, Robert C.

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ISBN 10: 0195084039 ISBN 13: 9780195084030

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

The War of the Fists is a study of seventeenth-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or battagliole, which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. These "little battles" were partly festive battle, partly sport, and partly thinly veiled plebeian mayhem: they could involve as many as a thousand fighters on each side and attracted crowds of thirty thousand or more. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at four levels: the social geography of Venetian factionalism; the combat itself, and its relationship to social culture; the festive world which grew up around the encounters; and the response of Venice's patrician state to this largely uncontrollable worker celebration.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert C. Davis is Assistant Professor of Renaissance Italian History at Ohio State University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195084039
• ISBN 13: 9780195084030
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 239