Singing the Republic: Polychoral Culture at San Marco in Venice (1550-1615)
Description:
During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Venetian society and politics could be considered as a "polychoral culture." The imagination of the republic rested upon a shared set of social attitudes and beliefs. The political structure included several social groups that functioned as identifiable entities; republican ideologies construed them together as parts of a single harmonious whole. Venice furthermore employed notions of the republic to bolster political and religious inde…
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Date:
December 2010
Creator:
Yoshioka, Masataka
Partner:
UNT Libraries