Venice: the remarkable history of the lagoon city

Before Venice

To Rialto

Ducal Venice

Between empires and beyond-the-sea

From ducal to communal rule

The Fourth Crusade and the creation of a Mediterranean Empire

Society and politics in the thirteenth century

The consolidation of the Patrician regime

Calamity and survival

The early Renaissance and the turn toward Italy

Taming the lion

The industrial and ceremonial city

Late Renaissance Venetian society

Roman Venice and the end of the Renaissance

The transformative seventeenth century

Reform, revolution, and the end of the Republic

Austrian Venice

Italian Venice, 1860-1920

Fascist and Cold War Venice

Global Venice