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City of Fortune
How Venice Rule the Seas
Author: Roger Crowley
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 14 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/10/2013
Category: History - Europe - Italy
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