City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

448 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battl...

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