Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Madden, Thomas F. (Professor of Medieval History, Saint Louis University)![Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/171/1717553/CHSBZCOP031717553.jpg)
Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through the life of Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107--1205), who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death. This first full-le...