Description: Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice's Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family...
Brief description: Erin Maglaque is Associate Lecture of early modern European history at the University of St. Andrews.
Review Quotes:
Successfully integrates social and intellectual history while adding new ideas for both groups of historians to ponder. In approach and presentation; it resembles a very good microhistory that takes seriously the saturation of humanist learning in both its subjects and the broader early 16th century.
-- "Choice"