Venice: The remarkable history of the lagoon city
Oxford University Press, £31.99 hb, 791 pp
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Venice is a vast project for an historian. Dennis Romano has written what he calls a ‘remarkable history’, generous in its pursuit over 600 pages, with eighty-five pages of impeccable documentation. It is a revisionary history, not only because Romano goes beyond the end of the Republic in 1797, when Napoleon conquered Venice and planted a Tree of Liberty in St Mark’s Square. The three chapters on Modern and Contemporary Venice bring Romano’s history to the present day.
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Venice: The remarkable history of the lagoon city
by Dennis Romano
Oxford University Press, £31.99 hb, 791 pp
ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.
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