Venice, A Maritime Republic

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JHU Press, 1 nov. 1973 - 505 pages
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Combining engrossing detail and magisterial overview, "Venice, A Maritime Republic" traces the history of Venice from its origins in the sixth century through its rise and decline as the first modern empire of Europe. "Among the many cities men have made, " Frederic C. Lane Writes, "Venice stands out as a symbol of beauty, of wise government, and of community controlled capitalism." Drawing on a lifetime of study and reflection, the author shows how that resplendent city came to have the institutions, the buildings, and the pattern of urban life that make it unique.
 

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Avis d'utilisateur  - AskHistorians - Goodreads

Still the gold standard in Venetian history in English. More technical than Madden's recent work (below), but well worth a read for someone who wants to understand the interlocking pieces of Venetian society. Consulter l'avis complet

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My excursion into the long and glorious history of Venice, queen of the sea, a few years ago was the single most enthralling application of intellectual energy I've ever made. As enamored with the ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Page 363 - And as one enters the gate there is a great street on either hand with the sea in the middle, and on one side are windows opening out of the houses of the arsenal, and the same on the other side, and out came a galley towed by a boat, and from the windows they handed out to them, from one the cordage, from another the bread, from another the arms, and from another the...
Page 163 - And I beheld it marvellously dark. As in the Arsenal of the Venetians Boils in the winter the tenacious pitch To smear their unsound vessels o'er again, For sail they cannot ; and instead thereof One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks The ribs of that which many a, voyage has made ; One hammers at the prow, one at the stern, This one makes oars, and that one cordage twists, Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen...
Page 3 - You have abundance only of fish," he wrote, "rich and poor live together in equality. The same food and similar houses are shared by all; wherefore they cannot envy each other's hearths, and so they are free from the vices that rule the world.
Page 119 - ... explanations are based partly on Lane's earlier studies and since Lane assigns more space to the above subjects and treats each more systematically (McNeill's pages on naval technology and warfare are worth careful reading nevertheless), we shall follow Lane in including among these changes, improvements in "the methods of navigation and in the construction, rigging, and armament of ships": thus, the use of the mariner's compass; of port books that list port by port the distances from one landmark...
Page 332 - Give alms to two hundred and as many again appear. You cannot walk down a street or stop in a square or church without multitudes surrounding you to beg for charity: you see hunger written in their faces, their eyes like gemless rings, the wretchedness of their bodies with skins shaped only by bones.
Page 474 - MAGALHAES GODINHO V., Le repli vénitien et égyptien et la route du Cap (1496-1533), in "Eventail de l'histoire vivante. Hommage à L. FEBVRE", vol. 2, Paris 1 953, 283-300.
Page 317 - Aldus earnestly begs you to state your business in the fewest possible words and be gone, unless, like Hercules to weary Atlas, you would lend a helping hand. There will always be enough work for you, and all who come this way. & challenge, inscribed over the door of Aldus...
Page 4 - ... together in equality. The same food and similar houses are shared by all; wherefore they cannot envy each other's hearths, and so they are free from the vice that rules the world. All your emulation centers on the salt works; instead of ploughs and scythes, you turn cylinders, whence comes all your gain. Upon your industry all other products depend; for though there may be somebody who does not seek gold, there never yet lived the man who desires not salt, which makes every food more savory....
Page 28 - ... and built wooden towers at their mastheads and hauled up on to them by ropes the small boats which were usually towed together at their sterns. In these they placed armed men and cut up heavy beams into pieces about a foot-and-a-half long and studded them with sharp iron nails and then awaited the approach of the Frankish fleet. At day-break Bohemund came demanding their acclamations. But when the Venetians laughed at his beard, he could not stand their ridicule, and himself led the attack against...

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