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City of Fortune How Venice Ruled the Seas

By Roger Crowley

Book information

Publisher
Random House
Year
2011
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
15 MB (16122783 bytes)
Pages
\464
Time added
2016-09-29 15:17:07

Description

The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean.

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