Description
Book SynopsisThis 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, and their growth and development over the centuries.
Table of ContentsPart 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.
