Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Maps xi
Prologue 1
Part 1 Expansion 3
1 'Ill Milione' 5
2 Survivors and Losers 22
3 The Saviours of Venice 44
Part 2 The Imperial Age 71
4 Innocents and Empire-Builders 73
5 'We are Venetians, then Christians' 97
6 Father and Son 115
7 Colleoni 126
8 The Venetian Queen of Cyprus 140
9 The End of the Queen 152
10 'Lost in a day what had taken eight hundred years to gain' 171
11 Discoveries of the Mind 187
12 The Loss of Cyprus 197
Part 3 The Long Decline 207
13 The Battle of Lepanto 209
14 Women of Venice 218
15 The Jews of Venice 231
16 Deepening Decline 241
17 An Intellectual Revolution 260
18 'The Seat of Music' 277
Part 4 Dissolution and Fall 293
19 The Last Days 295
20 The Very End 322
Select Bibliography 334
Acknowledgements 338
Index 339