A History of VeniceKnopf, 1982 - 673 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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... lagoon , for all its beauty , can be quite unutterably sad . Who in their senses , one wonders , would leave the fertile plains of Lombardy to build a settlement - let alone a city - among these marshy , malarial wastes , on little ...
... lagoon , for all its beauty , can be quite unutterably sad . Who in their senses , one wonders , would leave the fertile plains of Lombardy to build a settlement - let alone a city - among these marshy , malarial wastes , on little ...
Side 37
... lagoon had saved the city . But was even the lagoon enough ? Pietro Tribuno did not think so . Some future aggressor , more disciplined and experienced in seamanship , might succeed where the Magyars had failed . Once inside the line of ...
... lagoon had saved the city . But was even the lagoon enough ? Pietro Tribuno did not think so . Some future aggressor , more disciplined and experienced in seamanship , might succeed where the Magyars had failed . Once inside the line of ...
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... lagoon – a region which , even by local standards , strikes one as peculiarly indecisive ; where the geography fails utterly to make up its mind whether to be terrestrial or aquatic , where the contours separating land from sea ...
... lagoon – a region which , even by local standards , strikes one as peculiarly indecisive ; where the geography fails utterly to make up its mind whether to be terrestrial or aquatic , where the contours separating land from sea ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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