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Investigates the history Venice from its humble beginnings in the swamps of Italy to its rise as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived together at a crossroads between East and West to the present-day problems with the sinking island, in a book by a leading historian. Original.
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Venice grew out of the swamps of Italy and became one of the great mercantile and cultural centers of the world. Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading historians of the city, tells the whole story, showing that Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, was one of the great Renaissance capitals. The book will also investigate the history of Venice as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. The narrative runs all the way to the present to the current problems with the sinking island.
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