A major contribution to the history of political ideas, the book had considerable influence on the thinking of later political theorists, including some of the Founding Fathers, who looked to Venice ...

Venice (Venezia), a historic seaport and the capital of the Veneto region in ... Once the center of the powerful Venetian Republic, Venice was Europe’s leading seaport during the late medieval ...

For 400 years, the Eastern Mediterranean was the domain of two great powers: the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. As rivals, they fought seven different wars, but in peacetime they ...