Venice: Maritime Republic
Frederic C. Lane
#2705 of 3,809 books · #887 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1974).
Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780801814600
- Genre
- Topics
- Venetian historyMaritime republicsMedieval and Renaissance Italy
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1974)
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