La Serenissima, the world's most durable merchant republic, dominated Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean trade for over a millennium before Napoleon dissolved it in 1797.
Abolished on 12 May 1797 when the last Doge Ludovico Manin dissolved the republic under Napoleon's threat; its territory was then partitioned between France and Austria by the Treaty of Campo Formio.
The atlas holds 8 border frames for Republic of Venice — the shape you scrub through changes in 697 · 1140 · 1290 · 1396 · 1496 · 1515 · 1590 · 1683.
Comprehensive narrative history from the Republic's origins to its fall.
The standard single-volume sweep of the Serenissima from its lagoon origins to Napoleon's dissolution.
The trading republic’s money, law, and prejudice on the Elizabethan stage.
The world of the Italian city-states — broad context for this republic’s politics and culture.