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The young French general, and future ruler of France, Napoleon Bonaparte The fall of the ancient Republic of Venice was the result of a sequence of events that followed the French Revolution (Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789), and the subsequent French Revolutionary Wars that pitted the First French Republic against the monarchic powers of Europe, allied in the First Coalition (1792 ...
He will ultimately be the last Doge of the Republic of Venice; 1796 – Prelude to the Fall of the Republic The Republic of Venice can no longer defend itself since its war fleet numbers only 4 galleys and 7 galliots; French troops occupy the Venetian state up to the Adige. Vicenza, Cadore and Friuli are held by the Austrians
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
The Republic of Venice in AD 1000. The republican territory is dark red, the borders in light red. The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797.
In the Treaty of Paris in 1814, the Austrians had confirmed their claims to the territories of the former Lombard Duchy of Milan, which had been ruled by the Habsburg monarchy since 1714 and together with the adjacent Duchy of Mantua by the Austrian branch of the dynasty from 1708 to 1796, and of the former Republic of Venice, which had been under Austrian rule intermittently upon the 1797 ...
In return, the Pope presented the Doge Liani with a ring, with which he told him to wed the Adriatic, that posterity might know that the sea was subject to Venice, "as a bride is to her husband". [2] In September 1796, nearly six years before this sonnet was written, the fate of the old Venetian Republic was sealed by the Treaty of Campo Formio ...
The Republic of Venice in the 18th Century. Translated by Kalina Yamboliev. Viella Libreria Editrice. ISBN 978-88-3313-757-5. Romano, Dennis (2024). Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19085998-5. Scarabello, Giovanni (1998). "La municipalità democratica".
During the Republic's early centuries, it was a force comprising an urban militia. During Venice's imperial age in the Late Middle Ages and the Venetian expansion into mainland Italy ( Terraferma ) in the 15th century, its conflicts with the Duchy of Milan , the Papacy , and even France and Hungary , required the Venetian government to raise ...