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Venice, one of the world's most storied cities, has a long and remarkable history, told here in its full scope from its founding in the early Middle Ages to the present day. A place whose fortunes and livelihoods have been shaped to a large degree by its relationship with water, Venice is seen in Dennis Romano's account as a terrestrial and maritime power, whose religious, social, architectural, economic, and political histories have been dete...

Originally published in 1987. Since Machiavelli, historians and political theorists have sought the sources of the stability that earned for Venice the appellation La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. In Patricians and Popolani, Dennis Romano looks to the private lives of early Renaissance Venetians for an explanation. Fourteenth-century Venice escaped the tumultuous upheavals of the other Italian city-republics, Romano contends, because ...

Reso immortale nei secoli grazie alle opere, tra gli altri, di Lord Byron, Giuseppe Verdi ed Eugène Delacroix, Francesco Foscari fu doge di Venezia negli anni tumultuosi tra il 1423 e il 1457. Spesso argomento di leggenda, la sua vita fu segnata da scontri politici, nemici in cerca di vendetta e strazianti drammi familiari, per terminare con l'allontanamento forzato dal soglio ducale. Nonostante tutto questo, fino a oggi non era mai stata scri...

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