This two-volume work contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300 1454. They refer to Venice's dealings with her own empire across the eastern Mediterranean and with foreign powers, including Turkish sultans and Byzantine emperors. At that time, Venetian power was at its zenith (the doges boasted of being rulers of 'one-quarter and one-half of a quarter of the whole world'), but there were dangers to Venetian naval and mercantile supremacy from the continuous advance of the Ottoman Turks across the territory formerly ruled from Constantinople. Volume 1, edited by...
This two-volume work contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300 1454. They refer to Venice's dealings with her own empir...