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100 1  Crowley, Roger,|d1951- 
245 10 City of fortune :|bhow Venice ruled the seas|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cRoger Crowley. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2012. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 0  Read by Edoardo Ballerini. 
520    The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled 
       for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of
       Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York 
       Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies 
       his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-
       hundred-year voyage of Venice to the pinnacle of power. 
       Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the
       first time, City of Fortune is framed around two of the 
       great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth 
       Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople
       and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the 
       Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499-1503, which saw the Ottoman 
       Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power
       in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of 
       Venetian maritime dominance-years of plunder and plague, 
       conquest and piracy-during which a tiny city of "lagoon 
       dwellers" grew into the richest place on earth. Drawing on
       firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful 
       negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a 
       vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and 
       the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. 
       Defiant of emperors, indifferent to popes, the Venetians 
       saw themselves as reluctant freebooters, compelled to take
       to the open seas "because we cannot live otherwise and 
       know not how except by trade." From the opening of the 
       spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, 
       Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of 
       its time-the reverberations of which are still being felt 
       today. Only an author with Roger Crowley's deep knowledge 
       of post-Crusade history could put these iconic events into
       their proper context. Epic in scope, magisterial in its 
       understanding of the period, City of Fortune is narrative 
       history at its most engrossing. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Venice (Italy)|xHistory|y697-1508. 
650  0 Merchants|zItaly|zVenice|xHistory. 
651  0 Venice (Italy)|xEconomic conditions|yTo 1797. 
651  0 Venice (Italy)|xCommerce|xHistory. 
651  0 Mediterranean Region|xCommerce|xHistory. 
700 1  Ballerini, Edoardo,|d1970-|4nrt 
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