In early modern Europe, spontaneous festive activities such as gambling and other street entertainments were a prominent part of everyday urban life. This article analyses their impact on some of Venice's informal political spaces. Ludic gatherings disrupted the rhythms of everyday life and often provoked violent reactions from residents who complained of being denied access to these public spaces. These daily struggles have long gone unnoticed, but they provide an example of how residents conceived of the urban environment in which they lived and how they established a political relationship with the authorities. Historians usually associate the suppression of street entertainment with a process of moralization imposed from above, beginning in the sixteenth century. The article reinterprets this narrative, arguing that the authorities’ policy of controlling urban space found fertile ground in a section of the community and depended on it to be effective. It shows how the prohibition of public ludic activities emerged from the demands of resident communities, who repeatedly appealed to the authorities for action to defend their use of informal spaces. The authorities’ repression relied heavily on neighbourhood control, which in turn depended on political decisions: in fact, residents usually denounced undesirable individuals or those with no ties to the community.

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城市空间的日常斗争：近代早期威尼斯的社区、邻居和街头赌博暴徒的治安


在近代早期的欧洲，自发的节日活动，如赌博和其他街头娱乐活动，是城市日常生活的重要组成部分。本文分析了它们对威尼斯一些非正式政治空间的影响。荒谬的集会扰乱了日常生活的节奏，并经常激起居民的暴力反应，他们抱怨被拒绝进入这些公共场所。这些日常斗争长期以来一直被忽视，但它们提供了一个例子，说明居民如何构想他们所居住的城市环境，以及他们如何与当局建立政治关系。历史学家通常将对街头娱乐的压制与从 16 世纪开始的自上而下的道德化过程联系起来。文章重新解释了这种叙述，认为当局控制城市空间的政策在社区的一部分找到了肥沃的土壤，并依赖于它的有效性。它展示了禁止公共荒谬活动是如何从居民社区的要求中产生的，他们一再呼吁当局采取行动捍卫他们对非正式空间的使用。当局的镇压在很大程度上依赖于社区控制，而社区控制又取决于政治决策：事实上，居民通常会谴责不受欢迎的人或与社区没有联系的人。