Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars

<p>During the Italic Wars, the Italian peninsula experienced foreign invasions and internal discord between rivaling duchies and city-states. Florence and Venice both faced internal and external discord due to the constant wars and political in fighting. Venetian Pietro Bembo wrote historical accounts of this period during the Renaissance. His contemporaries, Marino Sanudo, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, also wrote historical accounts of this time. My research spotlights Bembo’s history of the Venetian Republic. This history was written in a supposedly objective fashion, yet, scholarship shows that historical writing from this time contained bias. I focused on Bembo because there is a lack of scholarship that looks at his historical writings. This bias can be linked with the socio-political ties these men had. Examining his accounts of historical events and comparing them with the other three historians, Bembo’s slanted accounts illustrate the effect and importance of having a strong patronage network.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Lizee, Zachary M

• Renaissance
• Patronage
• Italic Wars
• European History
• Other Italian Language and Literature
• Other Rhetoric and Composition

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• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1156

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-2328