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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... siege of Corfu , and the following spring before the army could join them , accompanied by the Emperor himself in overall command . The siege , Manuel discovered , on his arrival , was not going well . The citadel in which Roger's ...
... siege of Corfu , and the following spring before the army could join them , accompanied by the Emperor himself in overall command . The siege , Manuel discovered , on his arrival , was not going well . The citadel in which Roger's ...
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... siege , the most detailed and accurate report of it that we possess . Trevisan was followed almost at once - purely coincidentally – by Isidore , former Metropolitan of Kiev but now a Roman Cardinal , who had been sent by the Pope to ...
... siege , the most detailed and accurate report of it that we possess . Trevisan was followed almost at once - purely coincidentally – by Isidore , former Metropolitan of Kiev but now a Roman Cardinal , who had been sent by the Pope to ...
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... siege techniques of the sixteenth century were vastly different from those of the fourteenth- and despite the feverish last - minute efforts of Venetian engineers to strengthen them they stood a poor chance of survival against the ...
... siege techniques of the sixteenth century were vastly different from those of the fourteenth- and despite the feverish last - minute efforts of Venetian engineers to strengthen them they stood a poor chance of survival against the ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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