From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As Giovanni Silvano notes in the forward to this valuable book, he approaches Renaissance Venetian republicanism with an eye to issues he has explored in work on Florentine political thought, notably his critical edition of Donato Giannotti's Republica fiorentina (Geneva, 1990). The present work consists of analyses of well-studied treatises on Venetian government by Giannotti, Gasparo Contarini, Francesco Sansovino, and Paolo Paruta. Silvano links them to each other, to contemporary political events, and to broader currents in Italian political thought, by discerning in each ...