A History of VeniceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1982 - 736 sider As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic. |
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... French and German troops fell on the local inhabitants , killing and raping with appalling savagery . It was another three days before the 15,000 corpses could be cleared from the streets . Bergamo hastily paid 60,000 ducats to escape a ...
... French and German troops fell on the local inhabitants , killing and raping with appalling savagery . It was another three days before the 15,000 corpses could be cleared from the streets . Bergamo hastily paid 60,000 ducats to escape a ...
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... French unnecessarily and encourage them to attack ? These arguments may well have been advanced in all sincerity ; but they bore no relation to the real reason for the Republic's inertia . The fact of the matter was that Venice was ...
... French unnecessarily and encourage them to attack ? These arguments may well have been advanced in all sincerity ; but they bore no relation to the real reason for the Republic's inertia . The fact of the matter was that Venice was ...
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... French demands became so threatening that the Signoria dared resist them no longer ; on 31 March 1796 Louis was politely requested to leave , and shortly afterwards did so , demanding - in an understandable show of pique - that the ...
... French demands became so threatening that the Signoria dared resist them no longer ; on 31 March 1796 Louis was politely requested to leave , and shortly afterwards did so , demanding - in an understandable show of pique - that the ...
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Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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