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by Paul Strathern


  Grahl, Nancy, 320

  Granada, 15

  Grand Canal, Venice, 22, 74, 117, 118, 124, 142, 143, 145, 165, 169, 180, 185, 264, 297, 299, 301, 308, 324

  Grand Tour, 260, 312

  Gray, W., 304

  Graz, 284, 285

  Great Council, 2, 39, 46, 68, 124, 125, 136, 242, 297, 333

  Great Schism, 75, 80

  Great Wall of China, 14 and n

  Great Zimbabwe, 18

  Greece, 73, 145, 254–5 see also names of locations in Greece

  Greenland, 14–15, 33, 53

  ‘Greek Fire’, 103 and n

  Gregory XII, Pope (Angelo Correr), 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80

  Grimam, Michele, 322

  Guarco, Niccolò, 57

  Guardi, Francesco, 308, 313–14

  Gulf of Corinth, 209

  Gulf of Izmir, 175

  Gutenberg, Johannes, 180

  Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 108, 110, 135

  Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier, 107 and n

  Hangzhou, 13, 276

  Hanno (elephant), 182–3

  Harvey, William, 187, 260, 261–2, 269

  De motu cordis, 261

  Hawkwood, John, 67 and n

  Hebrew language, 233

  Hellespont, 56 see also Dardanelles

  Henry III, King of France, 27, 224, 226

  Henry VIII, King of England, 185

  Hibbert, Christopher, 25

  Hodges, Sheila, 317

  Hodgson, FC., 57n

  Hofkirche, Dresden, 286

  Holbein, Hans, 307

  Holdsworth, Edward, 285

  Holland, Bernard, 280

  Holland/Netherlands, 242, 246, 272, 303, 320

  Holme, Timothy, 290

  Holy League, 198–9, 209–10, 211, 212, 254, 258

  Holy Roman Empire, 18, 100, 103, 171, 224, 246, 254, 255

  Hundred Years War, 19

  Hungary, 18, 44, 47, 56, 59, 60, 68, 76, 80, 81, 100, 103, 107, 254

  Ibn al-Wardi, 22

  Ibrahim I the Mad, Sultan, 250 and n, 251, 253

  Iceland, 15

  Il Barco (palace at Asolo), 165, 166, 168

  Imer company, 288, 289

  Impero, Giovanni da, 94, 95

  India, 15, 16, 18, 140, 174

  Indian Ocean, 15, 174

  Innocent IV, Pope, 37

  Innocent VIII, Pope, 154

  Innocent X, Pope, 251

  Innocent XI, Pope, 254

  Inquisition, 237, 240

  Roman, 237, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 274, 275

  Venetian, 226, 265, 266, 267, 327

  intellectuals, 188–96, 260–75 see also names of individuals

  Inuit, 15

  Ionian islands, 138, 199, 295, 297

  Isarello, Bertucci, 38–9, 42

  Istnan peninsula, 34

  Ivan the Terrible, 200

  James I, King of England, 237, 238

  James II (James the Bastard), King of Cyprus, 140–1, 142, 143, 144–5, 146, 147, 148–9

  James III, infant King of Cyprus, 149, 150–1

  Janissaries, 109, 110, 211, 253

  Jews, 24–5, 231–40, 314

  Johanna II, Queen of Naples, 126–7

  Johanna of Austria, 227, 228–9, 230

  John, illegitimate child of James II of Cyprus, 146, 148, 150

  John Comnenus, Emperor of Trebizond, 141

  John V Palaeologus, Emperor, 55

  John VI Cantacuzenus, Emperor, 23–4, 30, 31

  John XXIII, Pope (Cardinal Cossa)

  as Cardinal Cossa, 76–7, 79–80

  as Pope, 79, 80

  Johnson, Dr, 291

  Joseph II, Emperor, 320

  Juan of Austria, Don, 209, 210, 211, 212

  Julian VII, Pope, 183

  Julius II, Pope, 168, 171

  Juven, Balthasar, 244

  Kabbala, 239, 240, 323

  Kaffa, 22, 23

  Kafka, Franz, 329

  Karamama, Emir of, 144

  Karlowitz, 255

  Peace of, 258, 295, 298

  Karntnertortheater, Vienna, 285

  Kefalonia, 209–10

  Kepler, Johannes, 272, 274

  Kerkoporta postern, Constantinople, 110

  Kinsai, 12–14

  Knights Hospitaller/Knights of St John, 47, 157, 250, 251

  Knowles (or Knollys), Lady Catherine, 304, 305, 307

  Konigsmarck, Count Otto Wilhelm von, 254

  Kublai Khan, 7, 8, 14

  Kyrenia, 141

  Labrador, 15

  Ladino, 233 and n

  Ladislas, King of Naples, 76, 78, 80–1

  Lake Garda, 73, 128, 129

  Lane, Frederic C., 37, 66, 84

  Larnaca, 201

  Laven, Mary: Virgins of Venice, 222

  Law, John, 303–7

  Lazeretto islands, 214 and n

  Lazzanni, Gregorio, 308

  Leads, The (Il Piombi), Venice, 327–8, 329

  League of Cambrai, 168, 171–3, 188, 189

  Leaning Tower of Pisa, 270

  Leibniz, Gottfried, 275–6

  Leo X, Pope, 182–3

  Leonardo da Vinci, 133, 155–6, 181, 193, 307

  ‘A Temple of Aprhodite’ (sketch), 156

  Leopold II, Emperor, 320

  Lepanto, Battle of, 209–13, 247

  Lesina, 33

  Levant, 9, 15, 17, 18, 25, 27, 28, 31, 45, 52, 56, 113, 114, 135, 174, 175, 213, 239

  Libro d’oro (Golden Book) see Golden Book

  Lido, Venice, 34, 60, 63, 66, 82, 164, 245

  Limassol, 201

  Links, J.G., 311, 314

  Lioni, Nicolò, 40

  Lipari islands, 256

  Livenza, River, 82

  Lodi, 91

  Battle of, 331

  Peace of, 131, 138

  Lombardy, 31–2, 82, 86, 116, 171, 246, 277

  London, 17, 51, 137, 138, 261, 303, 311, 312, 313, 320, 322

  Longo, Admiral Alvise, 112

  Longo, Giovanni, 100

  Loredan, Admiral Giacomo, 100, 112, 113

  Loredan, Jacopo, 122, 123, 124, 125

  Loredan, Leonardo, Doge of Venice, 169

  Loredan, Pietro, 116, 119

  Loredan faction, 122, 123

  Loredan family, 116 see also names of individuals

  Louis, King of Hungary, 44

  Louis III of Anjou, 126–7

  Louis XII, King of France, 171, 172, 173, 189

  Louis XIV King of France, 254, 259

  Louis XV, King of France, 283, 290, 327

  Louis XVI, King of France, 320–1, 330

  Louis XVII, King of France, 330

  Louis XVIII, King of France, 330, 331

  Louis of Savoy, 141, 149, 154

  Lucca, 76

  Lupazzoli, Angiola, 256

  Lupazzoli, Anna, 256, 258

  Lupazzoli, Bartolomeo, 259

  Lupazzoli, Francesco, 256–9

  Isolarto dell’ Ampelago et altri luoght particola, 256–7

  Lupazzoli, Maria, 258

  Lupazzoli, Orieta, 256, 257

  Lusignan, Guy de, 140

  Lusignan dynasty, 140, 144, 168

  flag, 163 and n

  Luther, Martin, 188

  Lyons, 263

  Machiavelli, 173 and n

  The Prime, I73n, 245n

  Maclodio, Battle of, 89

  McSwiney, Owen, 311, 313

  Madonna dell’Orte, church of, Venice, 215, 217

  Madrid, 309, 327

  Magellan, Ferdinand, 174

  Malacca Strait, 174

  Malamocco, 60

  Malatesta, Carlo, 81, 82, 89

  Malatesta, Pandolfo, 81, 82

  Malatesta, Pandolfo IV (‘Pandolfaccio’), 167–8, 171

  Mali, 18

  Malika Safiya mosque, Cairo, 249

  Malipiero, Pasquale, Doge of Venice, 125

  Malpaga, 132

  Malpiero, Alvise, 324

  Malta, 250, 251

  Mamelukes,
140, 175, 201

  Manchester Central Library, 286

  Manet, Edouard: Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 178

  Manfredia, 68

  Manin, Lodovico, Doge of Venice, 331–2, 333

  Mantua, 32, 247, 280, 283, 331

  Manutius, Aldus, 181–2

  Marano, fort of, 69

  Marcello, Bartolomeo, 112, 113, 114

  Maria Theresa, Empress, 312

  Marietta of Patras, 146–7, 150

  Marino, Rizzo di, 148, 149, 150, 153–4, 156, 157, 158–61

  Marseilles, 44

  Martin V, Pope, 80, 127

  Martingale method, 325

  Maruffo, Marco, 66, 68

  Maurus, St, 34 and n

  Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 168, 171, 188

  Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 202

  Mazzola, Catenno, 318, 319

  Mecca, 250

  Medici, Antonio de’, 228

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 29

  Medici, Grand Duke Cosimo I de’, 227

  Medici, Grand Duke Cosimo II de’

  tutored by Galileo, 269

  as Grand Duke, 274

  Medici, Cardinal Ferdinando de’ (later Grand Duke Ferdinando I), 228, 229, 230

  Medici, Grand Duke Ferdinand II de’, 269

  Medici, Filippo de’, 228

  Medici, Francesco de’ (later Grand Duke Francesco I), 227, 228, 229, 230

  Medici, Giulio de’ see Clement VII, Pope

  Medici, Lorenzo de’, 139

  Mediterranean, 31, 35, 44, 52, 56, 64, 154, 174, 199, 200, 213

  eastern, 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 31, 64, 82, 98, 115, 122, 134, 135, 138, 140, 145, 146, 173, 213, 241, 248, 249, 254

  Mehmet II, Sultan, 97, 98, 99, 101, 104, 106–7, 108, 109 and n, 112, 113–14, 122, 123, 135–6, 137–8, 139, 144, 177

  Mehmet III, Sultan, 248, 249

  Mehmet IV Sultan, 253

  Mengs, Anton Raphael, 309, 310

  Messianism, 239, 240

  Messina, 209

  Mestre, 121

  Metastasio, Pietro, 315, 318, 319

  Mexico, 197

  Michelangelo, 133, 215, 307

  Milan

  Genoa signs humiliating treaty with, 32

  becomes major power in northern Italy, 32

  peace treaty between Genoa and Venice signed under auspices of, 44

  power vacuum in, 73

  Filippo Maria Visconti comes to power in, 84

  at war with Venice, 84, 86–8, 89–90, 91–2, 97, 116, 119, 126, 127, 128–30

  Carmagnola fights on behalf of, 84–5

  Carmagnola fights against, 86–90, 91, 92, 127

  Ambrosian Republic, 130–1

  Francesco Sforza becomes Duke of, 131

  signs Peace of Lodi, 131

  under control of Spain, 243

  part of Austrian Empire, 312

  Bonaparte marches into, 331

  brief references, 33, 37, 121, 132, 192, 193, 194, 196, 283, 330

  Military Gate of San Romano, Constantinople, 101 and n, 102, 108, 110

  Milky Way, 273

  Milletos, 47–8

  Minotto, Girolamo, 100, 103, 113

  Mint, The (Zecca), Venice, 17, 28

  Mississippi Scheme, 304–5

  Mistachiel, Philip, 142

  Mocenigo, Captain-General Lazzaro, 253

  Mocenigo, Captain-General Pietro (later, Doge of Venice), 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 153

  Mocenigo, Tommaso, 81, 82, 83, 84, 115, 116, 119

  Mocenigo, Zuan, 264, 265, 267

  Modane, 113

  Modena, Leon da (Judah Aryeh mi-Modena), 233–8, 239, 240, 301

  Histona de’ Riti Hebrma vita e oservanza, 237–8

  Modena, Marco da, 235–6

  Modena, Rachel da, 235, 236

  Molo, Venice, 37, 61, 63, 67, 142, 145, 244, 301

  Monacis, Lorenzo de, 32, 36

  Mongol Empire, 7

  Montaigne, 184

  Montanelli, Indro, 288

  Montesquieu, 299–300, 306

  Monte Vecchto fund, 44–5

  Monteverdi, Claudio, 279–80

  L’ineoronazione di Poppea, 280

  L’Orfeo, 279–80

  Monza, 130

  Moro, Christofero, Doge of Venice, 142

  Morosom, Francesco, 254–5

  Morosom, Michele, 69

  Moses of Leon, rabbi, 240

  Mount Athos, 297

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 314, 319, 320, 326

  Così fan tutti, 319

  Don Giovanni, 319, 320, 326

  The Marriage of Figaro, 319

  Murad III, Sultan, 248

  Murano, 2, 17, 62, 74, 160, 323

  music, 277–91, 319 see also opera; names of composers

  Mussis, Gabnele de, 22–3

  Mustafa Pasha, Lala, 201, 202, 203–4, 205

  Naples

  forces occupy Rome, 76

  kingdom in disarray, 126–7

  and Peace of Lodi, 131

  Turks invade Otranto, 138, 139

  and Cyprus, 144, 149, 150, 151, 153–4, 159

  peformance of Donizetti’s Catenna Cornaro in, 170

  under control of Spain, 243

  and Osuna’s plot, 245

  agrees to join forces against the Turks, 251

  brief references, 47, 73, 79, 100, 103, 161, 198, 262, 263, 266

  Napoleon Bonaparte, 321, 330–1, 332, 333

  Nathan of Gaza, 239

  National Gallery, London, 137

  Native Americans, 15

  Nauplia, 120, 254

  Navarino, 251

  Naxos, Duchy of, 114

  Negropont, 19, 24, 104, 112, 113, 135

  Netherlands see Holland/Netherlands

  New World, 33, 197, 241

  New York, 320

  Nice, 200

  Nicholas V, Pope, 131

  Nicosia, 148, 201–2, 202–3

  Nigro, Marco, 40

  Nile delta, 15, 157

  North Sea, 16, 134, 139

  Norwich, John Julius, 1, 244

  nuns, 219–22

  Nur Banu, 248

  Odoric of Pordenone, 14

  Oglio, River, 89

  Oliphant, Margaret, 65

  Oliviero (servant), 121

  opera, 169–70, 277–80, 283–4, 286, 287, 289, 319 see also names of composers and librettists

  Orba prison, Venice, 95

  Orban, 99, 105

  Orkneys, 33

  Ospedale della Pietà, Venice, 281–2, 283, 285

  Osuna, Duke of, 244, 245, 246

  Otranto, 33, 138, 139

  Bishop of, 138

  Ottoman Empire

  advance into Pelopponese, 53

  continued expansion through Greece and Anatolia, 73

  increasing threat to Venetian empire from, 82–3

  Constantinople falls to, 97–113

  Venice negotiates with, 113–14

  gains control of Naxos, Tenedos and Argos, 114

  Venice’s policy of appeasement towards, 135

  rapid advance through Dalmatia, 135

  treaty with Venice, 135

  interest in cultural exchange, 135–6

  Gentile Bellini at court of, 136–8

  death of Mehmet II and accession of Bejazit II, 138

  seizure of Otranto, 138, 139

  withdrawal of garrison from Otranto, 139

  as threat to Cyprus, 145, 155

  Venetian maritime empire under threat from expansion of, 173

  Selim I the Grim becomes ruler of, 175

  military campaign in Syria, and conquest of Egypt, 175

  Pius II bans Christian states from trading alum with, 175

  attack on Corfu and Calabria, 198

  Holy League formed against, 198–9

  victory at Battle of Preveza, 199

  further onslaughts of, 199–200

  gains control of Cyprus, 200, 201–5

  defeated at Battle of Lepanto, 209–13

  improv
ed relations between Venice and, 247–8

  Safiye’s influence in, 248–9

  incident sparks war with Venice, 249–51

  conflict (1645–69), 251–4

  Venice signs treaty conceding all major requests of, 254

  expansion into central Europe, 254

  new Holy League formed against, 254

  renewed conflict, 254–5

  signs Peace of Karlowitz, 255

  Venetian agents in ports of, 255–6 see also Lupazzoli, Francesco

  brief references, 122, 176, 241, 245

  Ovid, 225

  Oxford, 51, 77, 263

  Pacific, 174

  Pacioli, Luca, 181, 190–1

  De divina proportione, 181

  Summa, 190–1, 194

  Padua, 32, 49, 51, 56, 59, 60, 69, 73, 77, 81, 94, 143, 150, 154, 188, 189, 214, 263, 287, 323

  University, 53, 187, 188, 193, 239–40, 260, 261, 262, 264, 269, 270, 271, 272, 323

  Palazzo Capello, Venice, 230

  Palazzo Corner, Venice, 141n, 142, 143

  Palazzo di San Giorgio, Genoa, ll

  Palazzo Loredan, Venice, 297

  Palazzo San Moisè, Venice, 303 and n

  Palestine, 12, 15, 15–16n

  Panizza, Paola, 223

  Papal States, 78, 171

  paper money, 18, 304, 305, 306

  Paphos, 147–8

  Parenzo, 34, 59

  Paris, 51, 237, 263, 290, 291, 306, 320, 329

  University, 77

  Parthenon, Athens, 255

  ‘Party of the Land’, 82

  ‘Party of the Sea’, 82–3

  Passalacqua, Elisabetta, 288

  Passarowitz, 298

  Pastor, Ludwig, 77

  Patras, 52

  Patrizi, Francesco, 267

  Paul III, Pope, 198

  Paul V, Pope, 243

  Pavia, 193

  Pax Mongolica, 8

  Pellestrina, 60, 67

 

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