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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... defend the rights of his fellow - citizens had been a fiasco . It was not , however , the last . On 31 January 1308 ... defended the Guelf cause against the Ghibelline captain , Salinguerra Torelli . Thus , when the city fell to the ...
... defend the rights of his fellow - citizens had been a fiasco . It was not , however , the last . On 31 January 1308 ... defended the Guelf cause against the Ghibelline captain , Salinguerra Torelli . Thus , when the city fell to the ...
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... defend her interests if they were attacked . But when she did so she defended Europe too . The same sound , if occasionally unscrupulous , statesmanship that enabled Venice to extend her domains in the eastern Mediterranean dictated her ...
... defend her interests if they were attacked . But when she did so she defended Europe too . The same sound , if occasionally unscrupulous , statesmanship that enabled Venice to extend her domains in the eastern Mediterranean dictated her ...
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... defend itself , it could only be defended by Venice , from which all military supplies , arms and ammunition , and the bulk of the fighting men and horses would have to come . But Venice lay over 1,500 miles away across the ...
... defend itself , it could only be defended by Venice , from which all military supplies , arms and ammunition , and the bulk of the fighting men and horses would have to come . But Venice lay over 1,500 miles away across the ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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