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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... soon after their arrival . That church still stands . It is dedicated , surprisingly , not to the Evangelist but to St Euphemia , the leader of an obscure group of local virgins martyred at Aquileia soon after his departure ; but it ...
... soon after their arrival . That church still stands . It is dedicated , surprisingly , not to the Evangelist but to St Euphemia , the leader of an obscure group of local virgins martyred at Aquileia soon after his departure ; but it ...
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... soon disillusioned . Obelerio lost no time in elevating his brother Beato to share his throne , and the new tandem soon proved almost indistinguishable from the old . Internal unrest grew worse than ever . The upheavals of the past two ...
... soon disillusioned . Obelerio lost no time in elevating his brother Beato to share his throne , and the new tandem soon proved almost indistinguishable from the old . Internal unrest grew worse than ever . The upheavals of the past two ...
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... soon would be ; the days were shortly to come when anyone found guilty of seizure or damage to the property of the Republic would almost certainly spend the rest of a rather short life regretting it . The first decade of Domenico ...
... soon would be ; the days were shortly to come when anyone found guilty of seizure or damage to the property of the Republic would almost certainly spend the rest of a rather short life regretting it . The first decade of Domenico ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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