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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, melanchoIy city, this we know. But insatiabIe? And yet this latter characteristic defines Venice more aptIy 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 sale 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 lagoon city was able to develop into the trading city of the Mediterranean and how it became a cosmopoIitan city whose wealth was the envy of princes throughout the world. |
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