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1310-1453

Genoese Wars and the Mainland Empire

Donatello's statue of Gattamelata, Padua

Continued from A Quarter and a Half of the Roman Empire

Murmurings on the mainland

Venice's struggle with Genoa proceeded fitfully. A particularly exhausting round in the 1290s had seen battles from Liguria to Constantinople before the Genoese victory at Curzola in 1298 and exhaustion with war brought peace again.

Once more, however, Venice had to concern itself with problems on the mainland, where ambitious tyrants such as the Visconti of Milan and the Scaligeri of Verona were posing a new threat.

Palazzo Ducale, view from San Giorgio Island

The next decades were relatively quiet – Dante visited in 1321 and got a cold reception as an emissary from Ravenna. In 1341, the Doge’s Palace was completed in the form we see today.

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History and Anecdotes

Venetian Gothic

Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Images by Inselmannderivative work: KrebMarkt (talk), Rodney, Creative Commons License