City Of Fortune: How Venice Won And Lost A Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

VENICE was founded by refugees from the barbarian onslaughts that beset the dying Roman empire.

Today it is slowly sinking beneath the waters of the Adriatic. But in between, and for centuries, it was a major player on the European stage.

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