Reviews for Venice 697-1797

The average rating for Venice 697-1797 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-04 00:00:00 Vinai Lee Roth writes quite thoroughly, focusing narrowly on Venice, for the most part, but devoting one chapter to "The Communities of the Terra Ferma" and another to "The Communities of Stato del Mar", which I appreciated for the wider lens of context they gave me. In this day when we talk about popular politics and why people favor policies that run counter to their own best interest, we can learn something from history, when Christians harassed the Jew from profession to profession, from city to city, taxed them out of existence all to their own detriment. And yet they kept doing it, undoing it when the consequences inevitably hurt themselves, but then did it again 10 years later, or fifty, or 100 when the lessons from their last round of protectionism were forgotten.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-24 00:00:00 Fred Fraroid A lavishly illustrated, and well written history of "La serenissima" by Franceso da Mosto, himself a native of the city and descendent of a long line of Venetians. His affection for the city comes across in the affection with which he writes of this anomalous urbanity. My only complaint is about the frequent side panels that interrupt the flow of the text with digressions, it would have been preferable had they be added as appendices.