Venice: Lion City

The Religion of Empire

Paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2002 by Washington Square Press.

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978-0-671-04764-1
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Garry Wills's "Venice: Lion City" is 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 City" presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. It is illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color. Garry Wills gives us a unique view of Venice's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, its Jews, and its women as they created a city that is the greatest art museum in …

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Subjects

  • Cultural studies
  • European history: c 500 to c 1500
  • History of specific subjects
  • World history
  • History - General History
  • History
  • History: World
  • Italy
  • Europe - Italy
  • Renaissance
  • History / Italy
  • Europe - General