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Crete, 1, 2;
effects on population of Venice, 1;
Negroponte, 1;
threat to Venice, 1, 2;
Venetian deaths overseas, 1;
Venetian fleet, 1
Polani, Vicenzo, 1, 2
Polo, Marco, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Polo, Matteo, 1
Polo, Nicolo, 1
Porto Longo, naval battle (1354), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Portugal, Portuguese:
conquest of Malacca, 1;
galleons, 1;
spice trade, 1;
spies, 1;
voyage to India, 1, 2;
voyages round Africa, 1, 2
printing, 1
Priuli, Girolamo:
on banking crisis, 1;
on end of Venetian empire, 1, 2, 3;
on fall of Modon, 1;
on Grimani, 1, 2;
on Indian voyage, 1, 2, 3;
on Ottoman threat, 1;
on Ottoman–Venetian relations, 1;
on Pesaro, 1;
on Venetian ethos, 1, 2;
on war preparations, 1;
on Zonchio battle, 1
provveditori (auditors), 1
Puglia, 1, 2, 3, 4
Querini family, 1, 2
Ragusa, 1, 2
Ralph of Coggeshall, 1
relics, 1, 2, 3
religion, Venetian policy, 1
Retimo, 1, 2, 3
Rhodes:
Byzantine empire, 1;
Cretan rebellion, 1, 2;
Knights of St John, 1;
Ottoman threat, 1, 2;
pilgrim voyages, 1;
Venetian trade, 1
Richard the Lionheart, 1, 2
Rizo brothers, 1
Robert of Clari:
on arrival of crusaders at Venice, 1;
assault on Constantinople, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Constantinople plans, 1, 2;
on crusaders’ food supply, 1;
on Dandolo, 1, 2, 3;
on departure of crusader fleet, 1;
on sack of Constantinople, 1, 2
Roger de Flor, 1
Romania, 1, 2, 3
Rosso, Moreto, 1
Rustichello da Pisa, 1
Sabadia, Hieronimo, 1
Sacchetti, Franco, 1
Saladin, 1, 2, 3
Salimbene, Giovannino, 1
Salonica:
Byzantine empire, 1;
consul, 1;
Genoese trade, 1;
Ottoman artillery, 1;
Ottoman occupation, 1;
Venetian occupation, 1, 2, 3;
Venetian strategy, 1;
Venetian trade, 1, 2
salt:
Ascension Day ceremony, 1;
bodies preserved in, 1, 2;
Byzantine shortages, 1;
food preservation, 1, 2;
saltpans, 1, 2, 3;
taxes, 1;
transport of, 1, 2;
Venetian control of supplies, 1;
Venetian trade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Venetian workers, 1
Salt Beds, Castle of the, 1, 2
Santorini, 1, 2
Sanudo, Andrea, 1
Sanudo, Benedetto, 1
Sanudo, Marco, 1
Sanudo, Marino, 1, 2
Sanudo family, 1
Schiavo, Domenico, 1
Schiavo, Tommaso, 1
Scutari, siege, 1, 2
Sebenico, 1, 2, 3
Senza, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Seriphos, 1, 2, 3
Setton, Kenneth, 1
Sforza, Francesco, 1
shipbuilding:
Crete, 1;
Dalmatian Coast, 1;
Fourth Crusade, 1, 2;
Ottoman, 1, 2;
timber supplies, 1;
Venetian, 1, 2, 3
shipping, 1, 2;
carracks, 1, 2;
galleons, 1, 2;
galleys, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
round ships, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
sailing ships, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sidon, 1
Simon de Montfort, 1
Siphnos, 1
slave trade, 1, 2, 3, 4
Smyrna, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Soffredo, Cardinal, 1
Soldaia, 1, 2, 3
Spalato, 1
spices:
Alexandria (Egypt), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Black Sea route, 1;
dealing, 1, 2, 3;
Genoese trade, 1, 2;
India, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Islamic world, 1, 2;
Malacca, 1, 2;
Portuguese navigators, 1, 2, 3;
prices, 1, 2;
profits, 1;
Syria, 1, 2, 3;
trade routes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Venetian trade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
spies:
Chioggia, 1;
Crete, 1;
Ottoman network, 1, 2;
Portuguese, 1;
Venetian network, 1, 2, 3, 4
Spinola, Gaspare, 1, 2
Stamati of Negroponte, 1
Stato da Mar:
administration, 1, 2;
ceremonies, 1;
colonial expansion, 1, 2;
decline, 1, 2;
function, 1;
importance of Crete, 1;
Ottoman threat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
remnants, 1;
resources, 1;
secular state, 1;
strategic axis, 1, 2;
territories, 1;
Venetian empire, 1, 2
Steno, Michele, 1, 2
Strabo, 1
sugar, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tafur, Pero, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Taiapiera, Zuan Antonio, 1
Tamburlaine, 1
Tana:
Barbaro’s expedition, 1;
consul, 1, 2;
convoys, 1, 2, 3, 4;
destruction by Mongols, 1, 2, 3;
dispute, 1;
journey time, 1, 2, 3;
Mongol concessions, 1;
slave trade, 1;
trade goods, 1;
Venetian settlement, 1, 2, 3
taxes, 1, 2, 3, 4
Templars, 1, 2
Tenedos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Theologite, Emanuel, 1
Tiepolo, Jacopo, Doge, 1
Tiepolo, Lorenzo, 1
Tinos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tintoretto, 1
Titus, St, 1, 2, 3, 4
Trau, 1, 2, 3, 4
Treaty of Venice, 1, 2, 3
Trebizond, 1, 2, 3, 4
Trevisan, Domenico, 1, 2
Treviso, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Trieste, 1, 2
Tripoli, 1
Tudela, Benjamin, 1
Tunis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Turin, Treaty of (1381), 1, 2
Turlanio, Marco, 1
Tyre:
aid for Genoese, 1;
capture of Genoese admiral, 1;
Church of St Mark, 1;
crusader port, 1;
fall, 1;
Genoese colony, 1;
glass, 1;
Venetian position, 1
Uzbeg Khan, Sultan, 1, 2
Uzun Hassan, 1
Varangian Guard:
at Blachernae Palace, 1, 2;
defence of Constantinople, 1, 2, 3;
flight, 1;
religious procession, 1;
support for palace coup, 1
Vaux, abbot of, 1, 2
Venice:
arsenal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
Basin of St Mark, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Ca’ d’Oro, 1;
Church of St Mark, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Council of Ten, 1, 2, 3;
dogana da mar (maritime customs house), 1;
dogana da terra (customs house), 1;
doge, see doges;
food supply, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
foundation, 1;
Great Council, 1, 2;
map, 1;
mint, 1;
Molo, 1, 2;
Rialto, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
St Mark’s Square, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
Tana (ropefactory), 1
Venier, Marco, 1
Venier, Tito, 1, 2, 3
Venier family, 1, 2
Veronese, 1
Villehardouin, Geoffroi de:
address to Venetians, 1;
on agreement to sail to Constantinople, 1, 2;
on Alexius IV, 1;
on arrival at Constantinople, 1, 2;
arrival for crusade, 1;
on assaults on Constantinople, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
career, 1;
on Corfu, 1;
on Dandolo, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on departure for Constantinople, 1;
on departure of Fourth Crusade, 1;
on doge’s palace, 1;
on embassy to Alexius, 1;
embassy to imperial palace, 1;
estimate of size of crusader army, 1, 2;
on fire at Constantinople, 1, 2;
on fireships, 1;
Fourth Crusade mission to doge, 1;
on repayment of debt to Venetians, 46 secret agreement to invade Egypt, 1;
Venetian agreement with crusaders, 1, 2
Villani, Matteo, 1
Visconti, Giovanni, 1
Vlad the Impaler, 1
William of Roubruck, 1
William of Tyre, 1
winds, 1
Zane, Andrea, 1
Zanibeck Khan, 1, 2
Zara:
bombardment by Venetian fleet, 1;
council of crusader leaders, 1, 2;
destruction by Venetians, 1;
Fourth Crusade attack, 1, 2;
Fourth Crusade plan, 1, 2;
Genoese supplies, 1;
harbour, 1;
Hungarian control, 1;
Hungarian pact, 1;
Ottoman threat, 1;
pope’s opposition to attack, 1;
pope’s response to sack, 1;
sack of, 1, 2, 3;
submission to Venice, 1;
surrender, 1;
surrender offer, 1, 2;
Venice relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Zen, Pietro, 1
Zeno, Carlo:
appointment as commissioner, 1;
appointment as general of land forces, 1;
attack on Chioggia, 1;
career, 1, 2, 3;
fleet, 1, 2;
Genoese ambassadors, 1;
Genoese coast mission, 1, 2;
governor of Negroponte, 1;
return needed for Chioggia conflict, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
return to Chioggia, 1
Zeno, Renier, Doge, 1, 2
Zibaldone da Canal, 1
Zonchio, 1; battle of (1499), 2, 3
Zorzi, Nicolo, 1
1 The doge’s palace, the Molo and the Basin of St Mark, with the line of sheltering lidi on the horizon
2 The capture of Constantinople in 1204, an iconic moment in Venetian history, as depicted by Tintoretto nearly 400 years later.
3 Departure: passengers prepare to board high-sided cogs, the bulk carriers of Venetian trade.
4 Return: fast, sleek and very low, a Venetian war galley pulls into port. The galeotti furl its sails.
5 The Senza. The doge boards the Bucintoro. The Basin of St Mark is a hubbub of ships and festive trade.
6 Venice, the golden city. The horses of Constantinople are on proud display. Merchants land produce, buy and sell. Marco Polo departs by ship for distant lands, portrayed at the bottom of the picture.
7 The gateway of the arsenal, the ‘Forge of War’
8 Arsenal carpenters fashion keels and masts, and plank out ships. Finished hulls are dry stored in sheds behind.
9 Possessions of the Stato da Mar. Rovigno (Rovinj, Croatia), a miniature replica of the mother city, held for 500 years.
10 Possessions of the Stato da Mar. the fortress of Modon (Methoni, southern Greece), the priceless ‘Eye’ of the Republic.
11 The sea fortress at Candia (Heraklion) on Crete, guarding its harbour
12 The lion of St Mark, the badge of empire, on the sea walls of Famagusta, Cyprus
13 The exotic orient: the reception of the Venetian ambassador by the Mamluk governor at Damascus
14 The battle of Zonchio: the ships of Loredan and d’Armer grapple with the huge Ottoman vessel (centre), just as flames start to engulf them all.
About the Author
Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge. He has had a varied career as a teacher and publisher and is the author of three books on the history of the Mediterranean. He lives in Gloucestershire and now writes full-time. His website address is www.rogercrowley.co.uk.
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