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Roger Crowley
City of Fortune - How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Hay Festival 2012,
A magisterial history charting the rise and fall of the world’s superpower city from the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 to the calamitous news that the Portuguese had pioneered a sea route to India.