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To the honor and profit of Venice
评分十五世纪末,外界人曾试图解读威尼斯的意义所在,却发现这里已经不能和他们已知的世界相提并论。威尼斯自成一派,在某种意义上说,是第一个停留在抽象基础上的现金的帝国:它用一种新的英雄取代了中世纪的骑士:商人。几个世纪里,成千上万威尼斯的商人走上了舞台,但海上帝国总是飘忽不定,和财富之城的商业相仿,注定变化无常。港口得到了又失去,军号、船舰和枪炮的喧嚣终究只是海市蜃楼。从繁荣到衰落,不是威尼斯人不够努力,抑或他们做错了什么。只是世界,毕竟不同了。
评分To the honor and profit of Venice
评分十五世纪末,外界人曾试图解读威尼斯的意义所在,却发现这里已经不能和他们已知的世界相提并论。威尼斯自成一派,在某种意义上说,是第一个停留在抽象基础上的现金的帝国:它用一种新的英雄取代了中世纪的骑士:商人。几个世纪里,成千上万威尼斯的商人走上了舞台,但海上帝国总是飘忽不定,和财富之城的商业相仿,注定变化无常。港口得到了又失去,军号、船舰和枪炮的喧嚣终究只是海市蜃楼。从繁荣到衰落,不是威尼斯人不够努力,抑或他们做错了什么。只是世界,毕竟不同了。
评分To the honor and profit of Venice
罗杰·克劳利(Roger Crowley),历史学家。他出生于英格兰,剑桥大学毕业后,曾久居伊斯坦布尔,并对土耳其的历史产生了浓厚的兴趣。他花费数年时间广泛游历了地中海世界,这使他拥有对地中海的渊博的历史和地理知识。著有“地中海史诗三部曲”《1453》《海洋帝国》和《财富之城》。
The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage of Venice to the pinnacle of power.
Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the first time, City of Fortune is framed around two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which saw the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance—years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy—during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grew into the richest place on earth.
Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. Defiant of emperors, indifferent to popes, the Venetians saw themselves as reluctant freebooters, compelled to take to the open seas “because we cannot live otherwise and know not how except by trade.” From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. Only an author with Roger Crowley’s deep knowledge of post-Crusade history could put these iconic events into their proper context.
Epic in scope, magisterial in its understanding of the period, City of Fortune is narrative history at its most engrossing.
从中古欧洲来看,作为海洋城邦崛起的威尼斯并非寡例,但优越的地理位置和商人国家制度则确保了它从与热那亚,比萨等同位面的竞争中脱颖而出,取得了最引人注目的持久成功。 地理位置上不难看出威尼斯的优越性,它位于亚得里亚海最深处,背靠广袤的欧陆腹地和多条贸易路线终点,...
评分 评分地中海三部曲的最后一部,依然精彩异常,和前两部《1453:君士坦丁堡陷落》和《海洋帝国:地中海大决战》有一定的交叉,但时间跨度更大,从公元1200年到1600年,横跨半个中世纪。欧亚大陆由于地理的分隔,本质上是两个相对独立的大文明圈,一个是以中国和印度为中心的东亚南亚...
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