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Venice: The Insatiable City State - Sites Of The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Venice - a romantic, melancholy city, this we know. But insatiabIe? And yet this latter characteristic defines Venice more aptly than anything eIse. For it was in this spirit that Venice emerged. In was the spirit of merchants dedicated to exploring any way of buying the best goods at the best price, who undertook arduous and perilous journeys so that they could offer for saIe the most exquisite, precious objects and who risked everything for the chance of amassing even more goId. Only against this background is it possibIe to understand why the Iagoon city was able to deveIop into the trading city of the Mediterranean and how it became a cosmopolitan city whose weaIth was the envy of princes throughout the worId. |
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