Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice - Thomas F. Madden, Thomas F.. Madden, Ronald Rees - Google Books

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Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval…