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Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...
1263 – Venetian victory against the Genoese and Byzantines at the Battle of Settepozzi; 1264 – The Genoese capture a Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno. 1266 – Venetian victory against the Genoese at the Battle of Trapani; 1268 Lorenzo Tiepolo is elected Doge; A ten-year peace treaty with Byzantium grants Venice trading privileges.
The Architectural History of Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09029-1. Gerhard Rösch (2002). "The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323". In John Jeffries Martin; Dennis Romano (eds.). Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins University Press.
The Tiepolo conspiracy was an attempted coup against the Republic of Venice on the early morning of 15 June 1310. Headed by the disaffected patricians Bajamonte Tiepolo, Marco Querini [], and Badoero Badoer, various motives have been attributed to the conspiracy, from personal ambitions to a populist reaction to the increasingly exclusive, aristocratic nature of the Venetian state after the ...
The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State, Venice c. 1400 to 1617 (1984) (ISBN 0521032474) Martin, John Jeffries, and Dennis Romano (eds). Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. (2002) Johns Hopkins UP. The most recent collection on essays, many by prominent scholars, on Venice.
Venetian victory: 1379, May 7: Pola, Istria: War of Chioggia: Vettor Pisani — Genoese fleet under Luciano Doria: Genoese victory: 1380, June 24: Chioggia, Venetian Lagoon: War of Chioggia: Doge Andrea Contarini, Vettor Pisani, Carlo Zeno — Genoese fleet under Pietro Doria: Decisive Venetian victory, breaking of the siege of Venice
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The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.