Venetians by Paul Strathern
Author:Paul Strathern
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Pegasus Books
* It has been pointed out that this quote from The Prince (Chapter 12) is of course a wild exaggeration where Venice’s mainland territories are concerned. As we have seen, the larger part of these territories constituted a comparatively recent acquisition. It is usually understood that Machiavelli was in fact identifying the European territory as the significant part of the Venetian Empire, whose overall territories had in fact been acquired over the city’s 800-year history.
* These can be seen to this day at the Topkapi Palace, the former residence of the Ottoman sultans, in Istanbul.
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