City of Fortune
How Venice Ruled the Seas
by Roger Crowley
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Italy, History, and Nonfiction.
?The rise and fall of Venice?s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.??The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice?s astounding fivehundredyear voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Italy, History, and Nonfiction.
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“Two books I've been reading on vacation, prompted by questions my kids were asking in Italy that I didn't have great answers to. I've been learning a ton from both: and”
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