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City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas
by Roger Crowley
- HISTORY
- 2012
- HARD COVER
- 400 PAGES
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Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, City of Fortune is framed by two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499-1503, which saw the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance -- years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy -- during which a tiny city of lagoon dwellers grew into the richest place on earth. Well-traveled in the Mediterranean, Crowley is also the author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World.
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