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BOOK REVIEW: Genoa ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Nicholas Walton

August 9, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Book cover: Genoa ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Nicholas Walton

While most books about Italy have been dedicated to tourist hubs like Milan, Florence, Rome, Sicily and Venice, Genoa with its rich history, rugged landscape, and tenacious residents, has been given only a passing mention.

Filed Under: Books, Features Tagged With: 2015 Books, Andrea Doria, Black Death, Black Sea, Christopher Columbus, Early Middle Ages, Early Modern, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, First Crusade, Genoa, Ghibellines, Guelphs, High Middle Ages, Historiography, Italy, John Cabot, King Charles V of Spain, Maritime Studies, Muslims, Places to See, Renaissance, Reviews, Slavery, Spain, Travel, Venice

Foundation Myths in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

June 10, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Plaque of Regola, the VII rione of Rome. (Dailyphotostream.blogspot.com)

The 3 papers featured here looked at the development of the civic identities of Florence, Genoa and Rome through art, architecture and foundation legends.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Administration, Andreas Doria, Architecture, Art History, Christianity, Chronicles, Churches, Florence, Foundation Myth, Genoa, Ghibellines, Giovanni Villani, Government, Greece, Guelphs, High Middle Ages, Historiography, Italian City States, Italy, King Charles V, Late Middle Ages, Paganism, Politics, Propaganda, Renaissance, Rione System, Roman Empire, Rome, Sixteenth Century, Thirteenth century, Twelfth Century, Urban Studies, Violence

BOOKS: The Feuding Families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy

March 15, 2014 By Medievalists.net

The House of Medici - Its Rise and Fall

Put down the Godfather, turn off the Sorpanos, and check out the real Italian families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy!

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Banking, Beatrice d’Este, Borghese, Calixtus III, Caterina Sforza Countess of Forli, Cesare Borgia, Christianity, Clarice Orsini, Colonna, Commerce, Cosimo de' Medici, della Rovere, Early Modern, Economics - Urban, Fifteenth Century, Florence, Gender, Ghibellines, Giulia Farnese, Guelphs, Isabella d’Este, Isabella of Aragon/Naples Duchess of Milan, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Lorenzo de' Medici, Lucrezia Borgia, Machiavelli, Marriage, Medici, Medieval Women, Milan, Orsini, Papacy, Political Thought, Politics, Pope Alexander VI, Renaissance, Rome, Sforza, Sixteenth Century, Social History, Spain, The Borgias, The Italian Wars 1494 - 1559, The Prince, Urban Studies

Violence and Repression in Late Medieval Italy

February 8, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Italian city states - Guelphs and the Ghibellines

Between the second half of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth, central and northern Italian city-states frequently suffered moments of disruption of the social peace because of factional battles.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Administration, Crime, Early Middle Ages, Fifteenth Century, Fourteenth Century, Ghibellines, Government, Guelphs, High Middle Ages, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Politics, Renaissance, Social History, Thirteenth century, Urban Studies, Violence