spies in, 275–6, 299
music, 277–91
at war with Ottomans in 1714–18, 295–8
treaty of Passarowitz, 298–9
attractions for tourists, 299
Montesquieu visits, 299–300, 306
coffee houses, 300, 315
gambling, 300–3, 305–6, 325
John Law in, 304, 305–7
Lorenzo Da Ponte in, 314–19
Casanova in, 322–5, 326, 327–9
pursues policy of neutrality, 330
finally caves in to French threats and expels Louis XVIII, 330–1
permits Austrian troops to cross its territory, 331
rejects offer of alliance with France, 332
faces advancing French revolutionary army, 332–3
occupied by the French, 333
Venier, Domenico, 224 and n, 226
Vemer, Maffio, 225–6
Venier, Marco, 224
Venier, Sebastiano, 209, 210, 224n
Venier, Tito, 45, 46, 48, 49
Verme, Luchino dal, 47, 48, 49
Vernier, Antonio, 121
Verona, 32, 73, 81, 130, 189, 205, 284, 330, 331, 332
Veronese, Paolo, 67, 215, 216, 308
Verrocchio, Andrea del: statue of Colleoni, 133–4, 176
Versailles, 290
Vesalius, Andreas, 187, 260
Vicenza, 73, 214
Vienna, 235, 254, 285, 286, 291, 315, 319, 320, 327, 329
Vigevano, 195
Vikings, 16n, 28
Villa Pratolmo, 228
Villiers, Elizabeth, 303
Visconti, Antonia, 85
Visconti, Bernabo, 44
Visconti, Filippo Maria, 84–5, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 95, 96, 126, 128, 130
Visconti, Galeazzo, 44
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, 73, 84, 126
Visconti, Giovanni, 32, 33, 44
Visconti, Matteo II, 44
Vivaldi, Antonio, 280–7, 291, 322
Aristtde, 288
Dcnlla, 284
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni), 283, 286
Neronefatto Cesare, 283–4
Vivaldi, Ugolmo, 16
Vivaldi, Vandmo, 16
Volga, River, 16
Voltaire, 290, 316–17, 318, 327
Waldstein, Count Joseph von, 329
Warmia, 188
War of the Austrian Succession, 312
War of Chioggia (Fourth Genoese War), 53, 54, 55–68, 69, 73
Wasielewski, Wilhelm von, 286
White, Michael, 267
Windsor, 155
women of Venice, 218–30
Wotton, Sir Henry, 242–3, 245, 275
Würzburg, 309
Yeni Cami, Constantinople, 249
Yiddish, 233
Zaccana, Sister, 220, 221, 222
Zara, 58, 202
Zecca see Mint, the (Zecca), Venice
Zeno, Antonio, 14–15, 53
Zeno, Carlo, 53–4, 55, 56, 58–9, 59–60, 64–6, 67, 68, 69, 70
Zeno, Japopo, 54, 65
Zeno, Nicolò, 14–15, 53
Zevi, Sabbatai, 239, 240
Zohar, the, 240
Zorzi, Alvise, 221
Zulian (carpenter), 221
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Maps
Prologue
Part One: Expansion
1 ‘Il Milione’
2 Survivors and Losers
3 The Saviours of Venice
Part Two: The Imperial Age
4 Innocents and Empire-Builders
5 ‘We are Venetians, then Christians’
6 Father and Son
7 Colleoni
8 The Venetian Queen of Cyprus
9 The End of the Queen
10 ‘Lost in a day what had taken eight hundred years to gain’
11 Discoveries of the Mind
12 The Loss of Cyprus
Part Three: The Long Decline
13 The Battle of Lepanto
14 Women of Venice
15 The Jews of Venice
16 Deepening Decline
17 An Intellectual Revolution
18 ‘The Seat of Music’
Part Four: Dissolution and Fall
19 The Last Days
20 The Very End
Image Gallery
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright Page
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