Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the ... - Robert C. Davis - Google Books

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The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous…