A Sketch Of Venetian History

A beautifully illustrated book exploring a unique take on Venice for curious travellers, lovers of history, art, architecture and the environmentally sensitive. This book also conveys a pervasive message of deep environmental and climactic concerns and the tragedy of how a Renaissance Empire has been turned into a contemporary amusement park. A Sketch of Venetian History will enchant, educate and challenge readers.Venice remains one of the jewels of Italy, of Europe, of the world. It is universally recognized as part of the artistic and architectural patrimony of humanity and in 1987 was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It receives over 22 million visitors each year!Since the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, Venezia has held an unrivalled place in the world's imagination and has inspired writers of prose and poetry, artists of all sorts, photographers, film makers, tourists and more. Yet, most people do not know the story of Venice. This book offers a unique portrait of Venice and weaves together many diverse subjects &– art, ecology, travel, history, all enriched by original line drawings of a unique style found on every page.A Sketch of Venetian History illuminates the Venetian Republic's history through six major eras &– from its early ecological formations, through its modest beginnings, to the height and potency of the Grand Republic, to its collapse and to its modern day challenges posed by environmentalism and massive tourism.

A history of Venice, Italy.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALLIANCE WITH THE LOMBARD LEAGUE. 69 bards, during the next three years, the Venetians do not appear to have been sharers. The part which they had already taken in the siege of Ancona must be attributed far more to a petty mercantile jealousy, than to any cordial espousal of the interests of the Emperor; and as soon as he felt strong enough to re-enter Italy in warlike guise, they again adopted their wise and ancient policy, of discouraging, so far as in them lay, the establishment of so dangerous a Power in their own neighbourhood. For this purpose they became united to the Lombard League, though without active co-operation; for it was not till they had boldly asserted the cause of Alexander III., that they became involved in positive hostilities with Barbarossa. Neither the chronology nor indeed the very events of the period which we are approaching are without perplexity: but of the flight of Alexander to Venice, and of the occurrences to which it led, we shall speak as the Venetians themselves speak; for although these incidents have sometimes been disputed, they appear to rest upon little less sound authority than that adduced for most other facts of a date equally remote. By denying them, we should tear a bright page of glory from the History of Venice, and contradict a testimony to which the most willing, if not the most implicit, credence is usually yielded, ?the testimony afforded by numerous works of Art. The walls of that which once was the Palatial residence of the Doge still bear witness to the triumph of Ziani, the humiliation of Frederic, and the proud revenge of Alexander; and the most illustrious pencils of the 70 POPE ALEXANDER III. AT VENICE. great Venetian School of Painting have conspired to give immortality to deeds which we are reluctant to consid..