Summary of Thomas F. Madden's Venice

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The city of Venice was built by the Romans, who were a determined people who wanted to resist the changes that swept Europe. They wanted to remain loyal to their state and to one another, and they wanted to remain Catholics in communion with the pope in Rome.
#2 The Venetian lagoon off the coast of Italy was a haunt of fishermen and wharf workers in the Roman era. It was one of a string of lagoons that stretched from Ravenna to Aquileia, and each was connected by Roman navigational channels.
#3 The Veneto region was a melting pot of cultures, and it was here that the city of Venice was founded. The Veneto people were industrious, and their cities were crisscrossed by Roman roads bearing merchandise to the region’s markets and factories.
#4 The city of Venice was founded in 421 by three Roman officials who were sent to Rivoalto, or high bank, an island group in the center of the lagoon. The first refugees preferred the higher, wooded islands on the lagoon’s periphery.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Italy
• My Last Duchess
• History
• Europe
• Catholicisme

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822526310
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Thomas F. Madden's Venice
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The city of Venice was built by the Romans, who were a determined people who wanted to resist the changes that swept Europe. They wanted to remain loyal to their state and to one another, and they wanted to remain Catholics in communion with the pope in Rome.

#2

The Venetian lagoon off the coast of Italy was a haunt of fishermen and wharf workers in the Roman era. It was one of a string of lagoons that stretched from Ravenna to Aquileia, and each was connected by Roman navigational channels.

#3

The Veneto region was a melting pot of cultures, and it was here that the city of Venice was founded. The Veneto people were industrious, and their cities were crisscrossed by Roman roads bearing merchandise to the region’s markets and factories.

#4

The city of Venice was founded in 421 by three Roman officials who were sent to Rivoalto, or high bank, an island group in the center of the lagoon. The first refugees preferred the higher, wooded islands on the lagoon’s periphery.

#5

The city of Aquileia was the capital of the region of Venetia, which was overrun by the Huns in 456. The city was destroyed, and its citizens were sold into slavery or put to the sword. The rest fled to the nearby island of Grado.

#6

The Venetians were a tenacious people who refused to cooperate with the times. In the late third century, the Roman Empire had been divided into two halves by the emperor Diocletian. The Veneto was situated in the western half, and thus subject to the emperors in Rome. In 330, the first Christian emperor, Constantine I, founded a new capital for the eastern half of the empire, which came to be called Constantinople.

#7

The first Venetians did not have much, except for their equality and amity among each other. They lived simply and focused on their salt works, which provided them with a source of income.

#8

The lagoon did not offer much in the way of foodstuffs, so the Venetians had to import them. They built saltworks that allowed lagoon water to flow during high tide into wide basins, where it was trapped and left to evaporate in the sun.

#9

The Roman Empire continued to decline after Justinian’s death in 565. The Lombards, a Germanic tribe, conquered much of Italy, and the Byzantines were unable to stop them. The citizens of the Veneto cities fled to the lagoon, where they would stay.

#10

The collapse of the Roman government in western Europe left a power vacuum in the rapidly shrinking cities there. The Catholic Church took on more and more responsibility, and the pope in Rome or the archbishop in Milan often found himself saddled with a host of responsibilities that had nothing to do with the shepherding of souls.

#11

After the Lombards destroyed Altino, some of the citizens settled on the nearby islands of Burano and Mazzorbo. Torcello was named for a gate that was near a tower in the old city.

#12

The patriarch of Aquileia had authority over all the bishops in Istria and across the upper Adriatic, including all the churches in the Venetian lagoon. He was no different canonically from any other metropolitan bishop, but he did have an impressive title.

#13

The patriarch of Aquileia was a player in the imperial and ecclesiastical politics of the Roman Empire. In 607, a newly elected patriarch of Aquileia in Grado formally ended the Schism of the Three Chapters there, and returned the entire congregation to obedience to the pope in Rome. The Lombards in Aquileia did not accept this, and elected their own patriarch.

#14

The first Venetians were Romans, who proudly refused to cooperate with a world in collapse, and they clung to a glorious past that had no hope of return. Their conservative outlook was tempered with a pious devotion to God and his Church.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The story of the tricky old crone was told with pride by generations of Venetians. The woman, as might be suspected, is a fiction, but the Frankish invasion did happen. Venice, the collection of fiercely independent refugees, was fused together by blood and cunning into one people with one capital and one heavenly patron behind the impregnable wall of the sea.

#2

The Venetian lagoon was a busy place in the seventh century, but there was still no city of Venice. The Byzantines, however, had little time to care for the merchants and fishermen of the lagoon.

#3

The Venetian capital was moved to Malamocco in 742. The lagoon was becoming an emporium of considerable importance, and the people were capitalists and fiercely individualistic. They prized freedom and distrusted concentrated power.

#4

The city of Venice was founded in 752 by Doge Maurizio Galbaio, who wanted to establish a dynasty that would rule the city for a millennium. But the world was changing rapidly in the late eighth century. In 751 Ravenna had finally succumbed to the warlike Lombards, leaving Pope Zachary in Rome nearly defenseless against a people who now dominated the Italian mainland.

#5

The coronation of Charlemagne was a bold statement from the West that the Roman Empire was restored in Europe. It asserted that the papacy was in charge of the empire, and one very successful German warlord. The real Roman government in Constantinople took a dim view of the ceremony in Rome.

#6

In 802, the doge of Venice was overthrown by a pro-Frankish coup. The new doge, Obelerio, was a complete victory for the pro-Frankish party, but many Venetians still could not bring themselves to repudiate loyalty to Constantinople.

#7

The city of Venice was born out of the Franks’ attempt to conquer it. The Venetians were able to merge their high principles, which were to protect their lagoon, with the need to defend themselves against a formidable foe.

#8

As the Franks marched out of the towns they had invaded, the Venetian people reflected on how much damage had been done and how many lives had been lost. The doge, who had been the pro-Frankish faction, was immediately overthrown.

#9

The Venetians were able to build a new capital, Rialto, thanks in part to the help of the emperor Leo V of Constantinople. The emperor sent craftsmen and artisans from Constantinople to help with the move, as well as significant amounts of money.

#10

The Venetians were outraged when they found out that their Church had been given to a Frankish patriarch of Aquileia. They had not spilled blood defending their homes from Pepin and the Franks only to have their Church given over to the enemy.

#11

In 829, two Venetian merchants, Buono and Rustico, were conducting some illegal business in Alexandria. They visited the church of St. Mark, where they prayed and venerated the body of the Evangelist. They then suggested that the two Greeks take the body and come back with them to Venice, where they would be joyfully welcomed.

#12

The body of St. Mark was stolen from Alexandria, and the Venetians returned him to Venice. He was kept in a small chapel in the Ducal Palace, which was the first church of San Marco.

#13

The association between St. Mark and the Venetian republic became so firm that it became inseparable. The story of his first visit to Rialto and his exciting trip from Alexandria to Venice became a foundational element in Venetian history and identity.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Venice’s success as a commercial center was based in large part on its location at the head of the Adriatic Sea. It was a convenient place from which to move goods to and from other European markets, while also providing plenty of commercial docks and local markets for overseas shipping.

#2

The Venetians were blessed with some stability in leadership during these years. Doge Pietro Tradonico reigned for longer than anyone who had previously held the position. However, his son died in 863, weakening his support, and providing an opening for those who opposed his dogeship.

#3

The doge continued to maintain a steady hand on the Venetian ship of state, until his health failed in 887. The people replaced him with Pietro Candiano, a vigorous man who promised to deal personally with the pirates along the Dalmatian coast.

#4