The Venetian Republic - Volume One: Its Rise, Its Growth, Its Fall

The Venetian Republic - Volume One: Its Rise, Its Growth, Its Fall

This is the first volume of the projected six-volume Chronicon Edition of W. Carew Hazlitt’s history of the Venetian Republic, based on the fourth edition (two volumes) published in London by Adam and Charles Black in 1915. Hazlitt’s work begins with the Republic’s foundation in A.D. 409 as a collection of villages on the marshy islands between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers that were intended to serve as a temporary refuge for Roman citizens fleeing the devastating incursions of the northern barbarians into the Roman Empire of the West. The set concludes with the Republic’s demise in the year 1797 at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte. Volume One of this Chronicon Edition chronicles the Republic’s formation and its slow rise to supreme maritime power in the Mediterranean. It ends in the year 1205 when Venice employs its superb navy to assist the treacherous western Crusaders in the conquest of Constantinople, thus depriving the titular Roman Empire of the East of its magnificent ancient capital for a period of 57 years.William Carew Hazlitt (1834 – 1913), known professionally as W. Carew Hazlitt, was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1861.