City of Fortune, Roger Crowley
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City of Fortune
How Venice Rule the Seas

Author: Roger Crowley

Unabridged: 14 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/10/2013


Synopsis

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

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