Venice the remarkable history of the lagoon city / Dennis Romano.
| Author/creator | Romano, Dennis, 1951- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvi, 775 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Remarkable history of the lagoon city |
| Contents | Before Venice -- To Rialto -- Ducal Venice -- Between empires and beyond-the-sea -- From ducal to communal rule -- The Fourth Crusade and the creation of a Mediterranean Empire -- Society and politics in the thirteenth century -- The consolidation of the Patrician regime -- Calamity and survival -- The early Renaissance and the turn toward Italy -- Taming the lion -- The industrial and ceremonial city -- Late Renaissance Venetian society -- Roman Venice and the end of the Renaissance -- The transformative seventeenth century -- Reform, revolution, and the end of the Republic -- Austrian Venice -- Italian Venice, 1860-1920 -- Fascist and Cold War Venice -- Global Venice |
| Abstract | "No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, "another world." During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-740) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023032463 |
| ISBN | 9780190859985 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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