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Two Representations of Venice in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England

Two Representations of Venice in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England Andrew Hadfield The importance of Venice as a symbolic beacon ot political liberty throughout Renaissance Europe is well attested, as is the influence of this m y t h in contemporary Britain.1 W h a t has perhaps been less in evidence is an attempt to distinguish between various treatments of this myth, noting the different uses towards which apparently similar representations of Venice w e r e put. I w o u l d like to argue that numerous positive accounts of the Venetian constitution in particular were not simply generous encomia to an ad'mired city-state and important ally, but, as often as not, w a y s of criticising a repressive 1 For the most comprehensive treatment see William J. Bouswsma, and th Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the C Reformation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968). O n the influence of the myth of Venice in England see J G. A. . Pocock, 7 7 K Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975 pp.320-30; David McPherson, Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Veni (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990); Markku http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Parergon Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

Two Representations of Venice in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England

Parergon , Volume 15 (2) – Apr 3, 1998

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Andrew Hadfield The importance of Venice as a symbolic beacon ot political liberty throughout Renaissance Europe is well attested, as is the influence of this m y t h in contemporary Britain.1 W h a t has perhaps been less in evidence is an attempt to distinguish between various treatments of this myth, noting the different uses towards which apparently similar representations of Venice w e r e put. I w o u l d like to argue that numerous positive accounts of the Venetian constitution in particular were not simply generous encomia to an ad'mired city-state and important ally, but, as often as not, w a y s of criticising a repressive 1 For the most comprehensive treatment see William J. Bouswsma, and th Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the C Reformation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968). O n the influence of the myth of Venice in England see J G. A. . Pocock, 7 7 K Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975 pp.320-30; David McPherson, Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Veni (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990); Markku

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Published: Apr 3, 1998

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