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  • 2 - Making History

  • Anastasia Stouraiti, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Book:
    War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice
    Published online:
    15 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023, pp 68-104

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 explores the politics of history in wartime Venice, focusing on the processes of documentation and representation that articulated the meaning of war in official and popular accounts. It charts how the two state historiographers, Michele Foscarini and Pietro Garzoni, incorporated the war into the official narrative of the Republic and patrician image-making. It then provides a detailed overview of popular histories, with emphasis on the political and commercial imperatives that determined their publication. Finally, it considers the role of censorship and shows how official historiography became a site of contestation between competing elite groups. The chapter argues that state-sponsored and popular histories compel us to rethink the colonial conditions of the production of Venetian historical sources and the close relationship between historical discourse and overseas empire-building.