Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth by Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Lydia G. Cochrane

Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth

Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Lydia G. Cochrane

424 pages first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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Perhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its environment. The lagoon on which it was built isolated the city's inhabitants from mainland Europe, forcing them to look seaward for their survival and to establish a maritime empi...

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