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by Paul Strathern


  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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