A Study Of The Renaissance Venetian Patriciate

The Venetian patriciate plays a very important role in the state politic the political, economic, cultural area. This is one of most peculiar strata, and its existence depended on a full-closing system, the patrician identity means the established right of attending the Great council. The Venetian patriciate created a solid social relation net through all kinds of means, for example, the marriage, economic activities and cultural patron, and made a great effect to each area of the Venetian society. The patriciate is an important part of the Renaissance Venetian social caste. Its evolution is the important for the development and the transformation of the Venetian society. Therefore, the Venetian patriciate has always been the very concern of the academic circles worldwide. The research on the Venetian patriciate in the West started earlier and more advanced and fruitful, while there has been little analysis and research about it in China.My paper intends to examine the Venetian patriciate of the Renaissance as a whole, analyzing their composition and feature, Quantity and flow, social features, social status and function, presenting the scenes of noble life, and analyzing the relation between social stability and Venetian patriciate and the status and function of the Venetian patriciate in the Renaissance Venetian society.Oriented on the long period of history, the paper analyzes comprehensively the cause, type, mechanism and rule of the evolution of patriciate while presents the scenes of patrician life and revealing the interactive relation between social stability to ensure an accurate evaluation of status and function of the Venetian patriciate in the Renaissance.The paper consists of five chapters. Chapterâ… deals with the formation of the Venetian patriciate. Venetian patriciate is a very peculiar class, the history of its formation endured a long time. The Venetian patriciate with full meaning in law eventually came into being in the Serrata in the end of thirteen century. Title and privilege are two prerequisites distinguishing the noble identity.Chapterâ…¡discusses the characteristic of patriciate as a whole, their self-concisions and life-style. The peculiarity of Venetian patriciate is that they always hold a strong spirit of solidarity. They kept themselves different from other classes throng the dressing, food, houses, the relation of marriage and the structure of family and so on.Chapterâ…¢analyzes the Venetian patriciate and the society, presenting the actives of noble in the political, economic, cultural area, to analyze the statement of patriciate in the society. As the ruling class, the Venetian patriciate firmly occupied their predominant status, controlling political, economic and cultural life of Venetian society. In politics, with the Great Council as the base, they controlled of the state power, they monopolize the high ranking positions in the government through various means. In economy, the patrician's activities became more diversified, and their venture spirit and their capacity of creating wealthy determine their important position in economy life. In education and culture, the patrician became better educated and their culture life colorful, they attended the civic ritual and they were the connoisseur and collector of culture creation and the patron of cultural activities. Their cultural tastes greatly influenced Venetian cultural life.Chapterâ…£is a conclusion, analyzing the relation between social stability and Venetian patriciate, in order to evaluate the status and function of the Venetian patriciate in the Renaissance.