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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Side 261
... Turkish sufferance , aware that his only chance of maintaining his throne lay in total submission to the will of the Sultan . The feeble old John V Palaeo- logus died in senile debauchery in 1391 ; 1 his son Manuel II was a good and ...
... Turkish sufferance , aware that his only chance of maintaining his throne lay in total submission to the will of the Sultan . The feeble old John V Palaeo- logus died in senile debauchery in 1391 ; 1 his son Manuel II was a good and ...
Side 293
... Turkish Sultan Bajazet I at Nicopolis . Since then , as we have seen , his activities had been largely confined to the diplomatic field ; but scarcely was he settled upon the ducal throne than he found himself once again confronted with ...
... Turkish Sultan Bajazet I at Nicopolis . Since then , as we have seen , his activities had been largely confined to the diplomatic field ; but scarcely was he settled upon the ducal throne than he found himself once again confronted with ...
Side 579
... Turkish ship in the Adriatic , his master had decided to declare war . The transparency of the excuse served only to confirm suspicions that the real object of the Sultan - or , more accurately , of the Grand Vizir himself , whose ...
... Turkish ship in the Adriatic , his master had decided to declare war . The transparency of the excuse served only to confirm suspicions that the real object of the Sultan - or , more accurately , of the Grand Vizir himself , whose ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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