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ROGER CROWLEY 

CITY OF FORTUNE 
How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
 
 
 
For Una
 

‘The people of Venice neither have any foothold on the mainland nor can they cultivate the earth. They are compelled to import everything they need by sea. It’s through trade that they have accumulated such great wealth.’
LAONICUS CHALCONDYLES, fifteenth-century Byzantine historian
 

Contents 
 
 
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Maps
Place Names in this Book
 
 
PROLOGUE: Departure
 
 
PART I Opportunity: Merchant Crusaders
 
 
1 Lords of Dalmatia
2 T he Blind Doge
3 T hirty-four Thousand Marks
4 ‘A Dog Returning to its Vomit’
5 At the Walls
6 Four Emperors
7 ‘The Works of Hell’
 
 
PART II Ascent: Princes of the Sea
 
 
8 A Quarter and Half a Quarter
9 Demand and Supply
10 ‘In the Jaws of our Enemies’
11 The Flag of St Titus
12 Bridling St Mark
13 Fight to the Finish
14 Stato da Mar
15 ‘Like Water in a Fountain’
16 City of Neptune
 
 
PART III Eclipse: The Rising Moon
 
 
17 The Glass Ball
18 The Shield of Christendom
19 ‘If Negroponte Is Lost’
20 Pyramid of Fire
21 Hands on the Throat of Venice
 
 
Epilogue: Return
 
 
Sources and Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Plates
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
List of Illustrations 
 
 
1 The Basin of St Mark
2 The capture of Constantinople in 1204, by Jacopo Tintoretto
3 Detail from ‘The Meeting of Etherius and Ursula and the Departure of the Pilgrims’, St. Ursula Cycle, 1498, by Vittore Carpaccio
4 Detail from ‘The Ambassadors Return to the English Court’, St Ursula Cycle, c.1490–95, by Vittore Carpaccio
5 La Riva degli Schiavoni, the Senza and the departure of the doge in the Bucintoro, by Leandro Bassano (da Ponte)
6 Marco Polo setting out from Venice with his father and uncle for the court of Kublai Khan, from a fifteenth-century manuscript.
7 The gateway of the Arsenal
8 Carpenters building ships in the Venetian arsenal
9 Rovigno (Rovinj) on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia
10 The Venetian fortress of Modon (Methoni), southern Greece
11 The Venetian harbour fortress at Candia (Heraklion), Crete
12 The lion of St Mark, Famagusta, Cyprus
13 The reception of the Venetian ambassador in Damascus, from the School of Gentile Bellini
14 Woodcut of the battle of Zonchio, 1499
 
 
Illustrations in the plate section are reproduced by kind permission of the following: Roger Crowley (1, 7 and 12), Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy/The Bridgeman Art Library (2), Galleria dell’ Accademia, Venice, ............

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