‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820
(2022)
Journal Article
Laven, D. (2022). ‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820. Mediterranea - ricerche storiche, 19(56), 543–564
British observers of the condition of Venice and its former territories in the post Napoleonic period were inclined to attribute the situation of the city to Austrian maladministration and the moral and economic decline of Venice after the loss of Ca... Read More about ‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820.