Chioggia and the villages of the Venetian lagoon : studies in urban history
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Chioggia and the villages of the Venetian lagoon : studies in urban history
Cambridge University Press, 1985
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 329-336
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This 1985 book is the study of the history of a group of villages, and one large town, that lie in the lagoons that surround Venice. Although written by an architect, it is not concerned solely with architecture, but with the whole history of the settlements, their origins, their growth and development, the occupations of their inhabitants, and the reasons for their prosperity or decline over the centuries. The book will interest professional architects and historians, many of whom will be familiar with the history and environment of Venice itself. It will also attract a more general reader, and perhaps lovers of Venice, and engender a desire to explore beyond St Mark's Square and the Rialto markets, to discover or rediscover the lesser riches of these modest but fascinating communities, whose physical environment, like that of Venice itself, has changed very little over the last two hundred years.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Chioggia: 1. Introduction
- 2. Origins of the town
- 3. Early medieval Chioggia
- 4. Local records from the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century
- 5. The late medieval apogee and the war of 1380
- 6. Reconstruction of the town 1380-1400
- 7. Chioggia in the quattrocento: retrenchment and social problems
- 8. The sixteenth century: civic pride and financial decline
- 9. From Sabbadino to the second great plague, 1630
- 10. The later seicento and the building boom of the eighteenth century
- 11. The Napoleonic survey: nineteenth-century postscript
- Part II. The Lidi of the Southern Lagoon
- Part III. The Northern Venetian Lagoon Burano
- Part IV. Some Notes on Other Venetian Sites
- Part V. Three Other Lagunar Settlements
- Part VI. Conclusions.
by "Nielsen BookData"