TY  - BOOK
AU  - Madden, Thomas F.
TI  - Enrico Dandolo & the rise of Venice
SN  - 9780801885396
U1  - 945.310MAD 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University
KW  - Dandolo, Enrico, 1108-1205
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-289) and index
N2  - Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through the life of Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107?1205), who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death. The scion of a prosperous merchant family deeply involved in politics, religion, and diplomacy, Dandolo led Venice's forces during the disastrous Fourth Crusade (1201?1204), which set out to conquer Islamic Egypt but instead destroyed Christian Byzantium. Yet despite his influence on the course of Venetian history,we know little about Dandolo, and much of what is known has been distorted by myth
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