Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

by Dennis Romano

Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City is a new history of Venice by Dennis Romano, a historian at Syracuse University who has authored a number of books on the city. It’s a long book (just over 600 pages) but covers the entire history of the city, from its mythic beginnings, through to the present with sections on medieval times, the Renaissance, ‘old regime’ Venicee as well as modern and contemporary Venice.