Venice : Lion City - The Religion of Empire
ISBN: 9780671047641 | 0671047647
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Washington Square Press
Pub. Date: 9/3/2002
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Garry Wills'sVenice: Lion Cityis a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire.Venice: Lion Citypresents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in t... MORE
| Key to Brief Citations | 9 | (2) | |||
| Introduction Athens of the Renaissance | 11 | (14) | |||
| PART ONE: Imperial Disciplines | 25 | (68) | |||
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| PART TWO: Imperial Personnel | 93 | (100) | |||
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| PART THREE: Imperial Piety | 193 | (90) | |||
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| PART FOUR: Imperial Learning | 283 | (84) | |||
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| Epilogue A Farewell to Empire | 367 | (6) | |||
| Notes | 373 | (26) | |||
| Some Leading Dates | 399 | (2) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 401 | (1) | |||
| Index | 402 | (14) | |||
| Photo Credits | 416 |
Garry Wills is the author of twenty-one books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), John Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, A Necessary Evil, and Venice: Lion City, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A frequent contributor to many national publications, including The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books, he is also an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
