This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gasparo Contarini and Enduring Institutions
Filippo Sabetti

Appendix A: The Myth and Anti-myth of Venice
Appendix B: Glossary of Terms
Appendix C: Principal Events in Gasparo Contarini’s Life

Notes on the Translation: The Latin of De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
Giuseppe Pezzini

The Republic of Venice

Book I. The City and the Great Council
Book II. The Doge
Book III. The Senate, the Council of Ten, and the Courts
Book IV. Magistracies of the Republic
Book V. Magistracies beyond the City, the Army, and Civic Institutions

References
Index

Gasparo Contarini (1483–1542) was a Venetian humanist scholar, theologian, diplomat, and Roman Catholic cardinal. He was an advocate of extensive reform within the church and a leader in the movement for reconciliation with the Lutheran Reformers.