Synopses & Reviews
A collection of essays, originally published in various journals in the 1980s and 1990s, developing the ideas of three non-Venetians who contributed significantly to the concept of Venice as myth and as the ground for utopian thought in the 16th century. Some topics include the myth of Venice in the thought of Guillaume Postel, structure, form, and meaning in Jean Bodin's Colloquium Heptaplomeres, the Virgin of Venice and the concept of the millennium on Venice, Dionisio Gallo and Francesco Spinola, and Postel and the idea of progress and utopian reality. Several papers are in Italian.