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A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure.

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ROGER CROWLEY

CITY OF FORTUNE

How Venice Won and Lost
a Naval Empire

City of fortune how Venice won and lost a naval empire - image 1
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For Una

The people of Venice neither have any foothold on the mainland nor can they cultivate the earth. They are compelled to import everything they need by sea. Its through trade that they have accumulated such great wealth.

LAONICUS CHALCONDYLES , fifteenth-century Byzantine historian

Contents
List of Illustrations Illustrations in the plate section are reproduced by - photo 3
List of Illustrations
Illustrations in the plate section are reproduced by kind permission of the - photo 4

Illustrations in the plate section are reproduced by kind permission of the following: Roger Crowley (1, 7 and 12), Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy/The Bridgeman Art Library (2), Galleria dell Accademia, Venice, Italy/Cameraphoto Arte Venezia/The Bridgeman Art Library (3), akg-Cameraphoto (4), The Art Archive/Academia BB AA S Fernando Madrid/Collection Dagli Orti (5), IAM/akg/World History (6), The Art Archive/Private Collection/Gianni Dagli Orti (8), Igor Karasi/ Shutterstock Images (9), Andreas G. Karelias/Shutterstock Images (10), John Copland/Shutterstock Images (11), akg-Erich Lessing (13), The Trustees of the British Museum (14)

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Venice Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean 10001500 Constanti - photo 5
Venice Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean 10001500 Constantinople - photo 6

Venice

Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean 10001500 Constantinople during the - photo 7

Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean 10001500

Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade 12031204 The Venetian Lagoon - photo 8

Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade 12031204

The Venetian Lagoon The War of Chioggia June 1378December 1379 The - photo 9

The Venetian Lagoon

The War of Chioggia June 1378December 1379 The Siege of Chioggia December - photo 10

The War of Chioggia June 1378December 1379

The Siege of Chioggia December 1379June 1380 Place Names in this Book I - photo 11

The Siege of Chioggia December 1379June 1380

Place Names in this Book
I have used a number of place names employed by the Venetians and others during - photo 12

I have used a number of place names employed by the Venetians and others during the period covered by this book. This is a list of their modern equivalents:

AcreAkko (Israel)
AdrianopleE dirne (Turkey)
BrazzaThe island of Bra (Croatia)
ButrintoButrint (Albania)
CaffaFeodosiya on the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine)
CandiaHeraklion (Crete). The Venetians also used Candia to refer to the whole island of Crete.
CaneaChania or Hania (Crete)
CattaroKotor (Montenegro)
CerigoThe island of Kythira (Greece)
CerigottoThe island of Antikythira (Greece)
CoronKoroni (Greece)
CurzolaThe island of Korula (Croatia)
DurazzoDurrs (Albania)
JaffaNow part of Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)
LagostaThe island of Lastovo (Croatia)
LajazzoYumurtalk near Adana (Turkey)
LepantoNafpaktos (Greece)
LesinaThe island of Hvar (Croatia)
ModonMethoni (Greece)
NaplionNaflio or Navplion (Greece)
Narenta RiverNeretva River (Croatia)
NegroponteThe Venetians used this name for both the whole island of Euboea, off the east coast of Greece, and its main town Halkida (or Chalkis)
NicopolisNikopol (Bulgaria)
OsseroOsor on the island of Cres (Croatia)
ParenzoPore (Croatia)
PolaPula (Croatia)
Porto LongoHarbour on the island of Sapienza (Greece)
RagusaDubrovnik (Croatia)
RetimoRethimno (Crete)
RovignoRovinj (Croatia)
SalonicaThessaloniki (Greece)
Santa MauraThe island of Lefkadtha or Lefkas (Greece)
SarayThe now vanished capital of the Golden Horde, on the river Volga, probably at Selitrennoye near Astrakhan (Russia)
ScutariShkodr (Albania)
Sebenicoibenik (Croatia)
SidonSada (Lebanon)
SmyrnaIzmir (Turkey)
SoldaiaSudak on the Crimean Peninsula (Ukraine)
SpalatoSplit (Croatia)
TanaAzov on the sea of Azov (Ukraine)
TenedosThe island of Bozcaada at the mouth of the
Dardanelles (Turkey)
TrauTrogir (Croatia)
TrebizondTrabzon (Turkey)
TripoliTrablous (Lebanon)
TyreSour (Lebanon)
ZanteThe island of Zakynthos (Greece)
ZaraZadar (Croatia)
ZonchioLater Navarino, the bay of Pylos (Greece)
Prologue
DEPARTURE Late in the evening of 9 April 1363 the poet and scholar Francesco - photo 13

DEPARTURE

Late in the evening of 9 April 1363, the poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch was writing to a friend. The Venetian Republic had granted the great literary figure of the age an imposing house on the waterfront overlooking the Basin of St Mark, from where he could survey all the rich hubbub of the citys port. Petrarch was drowsing over his letter when he was jolted rudely awake.

It was completely dark. The sky was stormy. I was tired when suddenly the shouting of sailors struck my ears. Remembering the meaning of this from previous occasions, I hurriedly got up and climbed to the top of this house, which surveys the harbour. I looked out. Good God, what a sight! At once touching, marvellous, frightening and exhilarating ! Here in the harbour there were some sailing ships which had moored at the marble quayside over the winter, as massive as this great house which the most generous of cities has put at my disposal. Their masts rise as high as its square corner towers. At this very moment, while the stars are muffled by thick cloud, while my walls are shaken by blasts of wind, while the sea roars and bellows horribly, the largest of them casts off on its voyage

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