HISTORY OF THE VENETO REGION

The discipline belongs both to the core educational activities of the Master’s Degree Programme in History from the Middle Ages to Present and the early modern course of History of arts and preservation of cultural heritage. The activities proposed prepare students to specialize in history in and outside Europe acquiring a specific understanding of the fundamental epistemologies of a historian’s practice and of the methodology of investigation of different types of sources, also the original ones. The course of Storia Veneta is historical characterized for its geographical and chronological features. The interested area, in fact, was related to the territories which belonged to the Serenissima, comprised those more fragmented which were called 'Stato da mar'. But the course is also interested to the history of the region which, after some other political dominions, in 1866 entered the new Italian Reign. The problems dealt by the teaching are especially political and social, but, anyway, the course will pay attention to all cultural subjects of a region which for many centuries belonged to a great territorial state. Notions like Cultural Heritage and Identity are the expression of a long historical and ideological process which developed in the Renaissance for reaching a more evolved form at the end of XVIII century. The course will deal arguments and problems of this period getting along with a historical proceeding of deconstruction of the narrative by which they were elaborated. The political and institutional context will be so examined in a new social and cultural dimension.

The teaching of Storia Veneta has the target to put in relation the history of the great regions which for many centuries belonged to the Serenissima to that of the European and Mediterranean countries in early modern and modern ages. For these reasons it is expected that students will reach a a deep knowledge of the features which informed Venetian history in the most general context of European history. Particularly students will be able to identify the specific cultural heritage of Veneto, considering the relevant social and political transformations which invested all the Mediterranean area. It is also expected that students will be able to comment correctly the archival sources both in their philological aspects and in the historical dimension in order to communicate them in the more appropriate way.

It will be requested a knowledge of the general lines of European history in early modern and modern ages. Although it is not considered obligatory it is recommended to follow the teachin of Storia di Venezia nel Medioevo and of Storia del Mediterraneo.

The course of Venetian History of this year will deal with the relationships between the several power systems of the polihedric state of early modern age and the different orders of justice which interacted with society. Particularly the course will deal with the topic of banditry in early modern period and on the famous aoutlaw Giovanni Beatrice (Zanzanù)

The students who frequent will hold the exam on lessons notes. The students who cannot frequent will present the following texts:

C. Povolo, L’intrigo dell’onore. Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento, Verona 1997, Cierre ed..
C. Povolo, Zanzanù. Il bandito del lago, 1576-1617, Arco (TN) 2011.
C. Povolo, La stanza di Andrea Trevisan. Amore, furore e inimicizie nella Venezia di fine Cinquecento, Isola V. (VI) 2018
All the books are also available in the website Academia.edu

The exam aims to verify the critical capacity of the student. The exam will be oral and it will last about thirty minutes. Particularly it will be ensured in which manner the student has learnt the problems dealt during the course realizing their contents.

The teaching will be achieved with frontal lessons and using the transcripts of archival documents. The course will also use digital sources.

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