Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public writing of Venice's individuals and collectivities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They celebrate the completion, authorship or sponsorship of buildings, sculptures, paintings, reliquaries and shrines. They caption the splendid mappa mundi of Fra Mauro and Jacopo de' Barbari's iconic view of Venice. They declare the ownership of a processional banner, of the recipient of a maiolica plate, and of neighbourhood association properties. They record wills, indulgences and appeals. They mark the graves of confraternities, a barber-surgeon and a master mason. They can be found from Piazza San Marco to the corners of Cannaregio and Castello as well as on the lagoon islands. Written in the vernacular, their weight of presence, unmatched by any other Italian centre, attests to the city's exceptional literacy in our period and provides a wealth of privileged historical information. The corpus, with accompanying photographic record, is the first of its kind. It is thoroughly contextualized and analysed in terms of historical and artistic background, script and language. Ronnie Ferguson is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of St Andrews and Cavaliere della Stella d'Italia. He is a Fellow of the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and of the Accademia Galileiana. His research interests include medieval and Renaissance epigraphy, the language and culture of Venice, Renaissance comedy and historical linguistics.
Band 1
Fester Einband | 2012
Band 27
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2017
Band 36
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2019
Band 37
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2018
Band 37
Fester Einband | 2016
Band 38
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2020
Band 39
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2020
Band 40
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2021
Band 40
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2021
Band 42
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2021
Band 43
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2021
Band 45
Fester Einband | 2021
Band 45
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2023
Band 46
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2023
Band 47
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2023
Band 49
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2024
Band 50
Fester Einband | 2021
Band 51
Fester Einband | 2022
Band 52
Kartonierter Einband (Kt) | 2024
Band 52
Fester Einband | 2021
Band 53
Fester Einband | 2022
Band 54
Fester Einband | 2022
Band 55
Fester Einband | 2022
Band 57
Fester Einband | 2022
Band 58
Fester Einband | 2023
Band 59
Fester Einband | 2023
Band 60
Fester Einband | 2023
Band 62
Fester Einband | 2024
Über den Autor Ronnie Ferguson
Ronnie Ferguson is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of St Andrews and Cavaliere della Stella d'Italia. He is a Fellow of the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and of the Accademia Galileiana. His research interests include medieval and Renaissance epigraphy, the language and culture of Venice, Renaissance comedy and historical linguistics.