During the Renaissance, there were two centres of art, culture & mercantile power in Italy: Florence & Venice. This is a sourcebook of promary materials, almost none previously available in English, for the history of the city-state of Venice. The time period covers the apogee of VEnetian power & reputation to the beginnings of its decline in the 1630s. Sources used include diaries, chronicles, Inquisitorial records, literature, legislation & contemporary...