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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... young Pietro with him on the ducal throne . From the outset , the boy showed himself a rebel . Whether , as some suggest , he was a corrupt and vicious debauchee or whether , as seems more likely , the rift was fundamentally political ...
... young Pietro with him on the ducal throne . From the outset , the boy showed himself a rebel . Whether , as some suggest , he was a corrupt and vicious debauchee or whether , as seems more likely , the rift was fundamentally political ...
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... young man not yet fifty and an active one . Immured in the Doges ' Palace , his time largely taken up with state ceremonial , he would have had little scope for his energies or talents . He could be of far more use to the Republic in ...
... young man not yet fifty and an active one . Immured in the Doges ' Palace , his time largely taken up with state ceremonial , he would have had little scope for his energies or talents . He could be of far more use to the Republic in ...
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... young man , promote him ; for if his services are not recognized , he will promote himself ' ) . That advice had been taken . In the following year , having saved the Convention virtually single - handed from the royalist insurrection ...
... young man , promote him ; for if his services are not recognized , he will promote himself ' ) . That advice had been taken . In the following year , having saved the Convention virtually single - handed from the royalist insurrection ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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