Venice. History from the foundation of the city to the fall of the republic
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Venice. History from the foundation of the city to the fall of the republic
39.99 €
31.99 €
The book covers the history of Venice in detail, from its foundation in the 5th century and its unique status as one of the most powerful city-states in the world, which it retained for over a thousand years, until the fall of the Venetian Republic at the hands of Napoleon in 1797. The publication is supplied with inserts with magnificent color and black and white illustrations. "Of all the cities of Italy that still retain their former greatness, only Venice was founded and nurtured by the Greeks. It is no coincidence that it is here that the largest Byzantine church in the world is located, where Christian services are still held and where the patriarch reigns. Even after ceasing to be dependent on Constantinople, Venice for a long time looked to the East, turning its back on the rest of Italy. The nightmarish intricacies of medieval Italian politics, the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the emperor and the pope, the barons and the civil communities - it did not care about all this. And by the time she finally condescended to create a continental trading empire, her character had already been fully formed in her own peculiar way. And to this day Venice retains much of the same appearance in which she appeared to the world not only under Canaletto, but also in the days of Carpaccio and Gentile Bellini.
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