Origins and Myths
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Crouzet-Pavan, E., “Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice', in John Martin and Dennis Romano (eds), (Baltimore, 2000), pp. 39-67.
Crouzet-Pavan, E., Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth (Baltimore, 2005).
Dursteler, Eric A., 'Introduction: A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), (Leiden, 2013), pp. 1-24.
Finlay, R., '', Sixteenth Century Journal 30/4 (1999), 931-44.
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Grubb, J., '', Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 43-94.
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Martin, J. and Romano, D., 'Reconsidering Venice', in John Martin and Dennis Romano (eds), (Baltimore, 2000), pp. 1-38.
Muir, Edward, ‘’, American Historical Review 84 (1979), 16-52.
Nicol, Donald M., (Cambridge,1988)
Ravid, Benjamin, 'Between the Myth of Venice and the Lachrymose Conception of Jewish History: The Case of the Jews of Venice,' in Benjamin Ravid, Studies on the Jews of Venice (Aldershot, 2003).
Robey, D., and J. Law, ‘The Venetian Myth and the ‘De Republica veneta’ of Pier Paolo Vergerio’, Rinascimento 25 (1975), 3-59.
Rosand, D., Myths of Venice. The Figuration of a State (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001)
Rosand, Ellen, ‘’, Renaissance Quarterly 30 (1977), 511-537. JSTOR