Venice Triumphant The Horizons of a Myth |
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Author:
| Crouzet-Pavan, Elisabeth |
Translator:
| Cochrane, Lydia G. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8189-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2005 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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Perhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its environment. The lagoon on which it was built isolated the city's inhabitants from mainland Europe, forcing them to look seaward for their survival and to establish a maritime empire that generated incalculable wealth, making Venice the envy of Renaissance Europe. In Venice ......
Perhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its environment. The lagoon on which it was built isolated the city's inhabitants from mainland Europe, forcing them to look seaward for their survival and to establish a maritime empire that generated incalculable wealth, making Venice the envy of Renaissance Europe. In Venice ......