Venetian Inscriptions

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Venetian Inscriptions: Vernacular Writing for Public Display in Medieval and Renaissance Venice
by Ronnie Ferguson

The book is the first complete edition, analysis and contextualization of Venice's surviving vernacular inscriptional legacy -- on stone, metalwork, painting, ceramics, parchment, paper and fabric -- from c. 1300 to c. 1525. It offers a rich new resource not only for epigraphists, palaeographers and linguists but for those whose interests lie in Venetian history, society, religion, art, architecture, urbanism, immigration, guilds, confraternities, charities, cartography or literacy.