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The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700.(Book review)

James E. Shaw. The Justice of Venice, Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700.

The British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 246 pp. index. tbls. gloss. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-19-726377-1.

For over a century, the study of one or another of the Serenissima's numerous magistracies has been something of a cottage industry in the scholarship of premodern Venice. From Roberto Cessi's essay on the Ufficium de Navigantibus and Giovanni Cassandro's monograph on the Curia di Petizion to Reinhold Mueller's book and articles on the Procurators of San Marco and Guido Ruggiero's imaginative use of the records of the Council of Ten in his studies of ...

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