Thetars of Fear and Delight: Ottomans in the Serenissima

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2000-07-01

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Özkaya, Ayşe Belgin

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Theaters of Fear and Delight: Ottomans in the Serenissima On 27 May 1621 the Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia (“the Venetian magistracy of trade”) drew up the regulations for the new Fondaco dei Turchi (“Ottoman exchange and hostel”), which was to be established in Casa del Duca di Ferrara on the Grand Canal in Venice. In that decree, mostly overlooked by the scholarship on Venice, in addition to rules organizing the daily life of Ottoman merchants, the board came up with directives to change the building. In my essay I am inquiring into the implications of that together with two other moments of the Ottoman encounter with the Venetians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of my aims is to point to the conditions of Ottoman merchants’ habitation, a subject that has been neglected by most history writing. My other objective is to reveal the complex historic and psychic processes behind the Venetian attitude towards the Ottomans through a comparative analysis of those apparently contradictory scenes of fascination and fear – from pleasurable viewing to the phobia of seeing to cross-cultural dressing.

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A. B. Özkaya, “Thetars of Fear and Delight: Ottomans in the Serenissima,” 2000, p. 45, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82670.