CityofFortune

ROGER CROWLEY CITY OF FORTUNE How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire For Una ‘The people of Venice neither have any foothold on the mainland nor can they cultivate the earth. They are compelled to import everything they need by sea. It’s through trade that they have accumulated such great wealth.’ LAONICUS CHALCONDYLES, fifteenth-century Byzantine historian Contents Title Page Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Maps Place Names in this Book PROLOGUE: Departure PART I Opportunity: Merchant Crusaders 1 Lords of Dalmatia 2 T he Blind Doge 3 T hirty-four Thousand Marks 4 ‘A Dog Returning to its Vomit’ 5 At the Walls 6 Four Emperors 7 ‘The Works of Hell’ PART II Ascent: Princes of the Sea 8 A Quarter and Half a Quarter 9 Demand and Supply 10 ‘In the Jaws of our Enemies’ 11 The Flag of St Titus 12 Bridling St Mark 13 Fight to the Finish 14 Stato da Mar 15 ‘Like Water in a Fountain’ 16 City of Neptune PART III Eclipse: The Rising Moon 17 The Glass Ball 18 The Shield of Christendom 19 ‘If Negroponte Is Lost’ 20 Pyramid of Fire 21 Hands on the Throat of Venice ......