The Venetians: A New History: from Marco Polo to Casanova (59 page)

University,
77

Parthenon, Athens,
255

‘Party of the Land’,
82

‘Party of the Sea’,
82–3

Passalacqua, Elisabetta,
288

Passarowitz,
298

Pastor, Ludwig,
77

Patras,
52

Patrizi, Francesco,
267

Paul III, Pope,
198

Paul V, Pope,
243

Pavia,
193

Pax Mongolica,
8

Pellestrina,
60
,
67

Peloponnese,
35
,
53
,
57
,
113
,
114
,
120
,
123
,
145
,
251
,
254
,
255
,
295
,
298

Peri, Jacopo:
Euridice
,
278
,
280

Persia,
61

Persian Gulf,
15

perspicillum,
272–3

Peru,
197

Peruzzi family,
19

Peter II, King of Cyprus,
52
,
55

Peterwardem, Battle of,
296

Petrarch,
25
,
32–3
,
37
,
41
,
42
,
49–52
,
53
,
176
,
181
,
224
,
281

Philadelphia,
320

Phdargos, Petros
see
Alexander V, Pope

Philip II, King of Spain,
202
,
209
,
210

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans,
304

Phocaea,
175

Piacenza,
126

Piazza San Marco, Venice,
49
,
61
,
62
,
117
,
118
,
132
,
133
,
300
,
314
,
333

Piazzetta, Venice,
39
and n,
40
,
41
,
95
,
122
,
160
,
329

Piccimno, Niccolò,
128
,
131
,
132

Piedmont,
286

Piombi, Il
(The Leads), Venice,
327–8
,
329

Piraeus,
28

Pisa,
44
,
269

Council of,
77
,
78
,
79
,
93–4

Leaning Tower of,
270

University,
269
,
270

Pisani, Admiral Andrea,
298

Pisani, Nicolò,
30
,
31
,
33–4
,
35
,
36
,
54

Pisani, Vettore,
54–5
,
56
,
57–8
,
58–9
,
62
,
63–4
,
66
,
68
,
70

Pisani family,
30
see also
names of individuals

Pitigliano, Niccolò,
172
,
173

Pitti Palace, Florence,
228

Pius II, Pope,
175

Pius III, Pope,
198

Pius V Pope,
202
,
209

plague,
22–6
,
28
,
29
,
30
,
213
,
214–15
,
226
,
246–7
,
280

Pola,
58

Battle of,
58–9
,
60

Poland,
16
,
188
,
260
,
309

Polidoro, Girolamo,
205–6

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,
254

Polo, Maffeo,
5–8

Polo, Marco (
Il Milione
),
5–8
,
9
,
11–14
,
15
,
18
,
29
,
276
,
291

Polo, Niccolò,
5–8

Pompadour, Madame,
327

Ponte, Lorenzo Da
see
Da Ponte, Lorenzo Po river system,
86
,
91

delta,
116

Porto Lungo,
35
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
54

Portugal,
174
,
241
,
242

Potsi ‘Silver Mountain’,
197

Prague,
272

Prester John,
16

Preveza, Battle of,
199
,
210

printing,
180–2

Pnuli, Captain-General Francesco,
161
,
162
,
164
,
166
,
167
,
169

prostitution,
218–19
,
222–3

Protestantism,
243
,
266
,
267

Prussia,
312
,
330

Ptolemy/Ptolemaic ideas,
260–1
,
270
,
273

Puritans,
238

Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt,
154
,
156
,
158
,
159–60
,
161
,
162
,
164

Querino, Laura,
219–22

Quirino, Francesco,
65

Ramusio, Giovanni Battista,
5
,
7
,
8
,
11

Raphael,
182
,
297

Ravignam, Bemntendi,
50

Real
(Don Juan’s flagship),
211

Recanati,
80

Red Sea,
140
,
174

Reformation,
240n

Renaissance,
32
,
82
,
136
,
165
,
174–5
,
176
,
177
184
,
246
,
265
,
309
,
310
see also
names of artists and intellectuals

Rethimno,
45
,
48

Revolutionary Wars,
330

Rhodes,
47
,
64
,
65
,
100
,
157
,
164
,
250

Rialto, Venice,
61
,
112–13
,
304

Rialto Bridge, Venice,
6
,
74
,
301
,
313

Ricci, Ostilio,
269

Richard I, King of England,
140

Ruhignona
(treasure ship),
65

Richter, Jean Paul,
155

Ridotto, Venice,
302–3
,
304
,
305–6
,
325

Rimini,
81
,
167
,
171

Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice,
29
,
49
,
219
,
281

Rizzo, Antonio,
99

Roccafranca,
90

Romagna,
127
,
171

Roman Empire,
61
,
115

Rome

Petrarch crowned ‘poet laureate’ in,
32

and Great Schism,
75

occupied by King Ladislas of Naples,
76

and Ottoman ambitions,
139

Charlotte of Cyprus and Louis of Savoy in,
141

Charlotte buried in,
154–5

Aretino in,
182–3
,
183–4

Inquisition,
237
,
263
,
266
,
267
,
268
,
269
,
274
,
275

news of Ottoman activities reaches,
251

Venice surrenders Bruno to,
267

Bruno’s imprisonment, trial and death in,
267–9

Copernican theory declared heretical,
274

Galileo faces Inquisition in,
274

Canaletto in,
310

Casanova in,
325–6

brief references,
29
,
51
,
61
,
73
,
222
,
260
,
270
,
283

Rousseau, Jean Jacques,
316–17
,
318
,
327

Rovereto,
129

Royal Library, Windsor,
155

Russia,
22
,
254
,
309

Rustichello of Pisa,
11–12
,
14

Ruzzini, Carlo,
298–9

Sabbateanism,
239
,
240

Sabellico, Marcantomo,
89
,
92–3
,
95

Safiye (Sofia Baffo),
248–9

St Peter’s, Rome,
154–5

St Petersburg,
326

St Ursula, convent of, Padua,
143

Salieri, Antonio,
319
,
320

Salonica,
83
,
84
,
97

Salviati bank,
227

San Barnaba district, Venice,
117
,
118

San Cassiano, church of, Venice,
169

San Cristoforo, monastery of, Murano,
160

San Giovanni e Paolo, church of, Venice,
206

San Luca, church of, Venice,
317

San Luca, fortress of, Cremona,
93
,
127

San Marco (St Mark’s), Venice,
22
,
61
,
86–7
,
125
,
164
,
169
,
176
,
213
,
216
,
280
,
281

Sacristy,
184

San Matteo convent, Arcetri,
274

San Nicolò di Lido, Venice,
34
,
59
,
60

San Rocco, school of, Venice,
216

San Salvatore, monastery of, Venice,
40

San Samuele, church of, Venice,
117

San Samuele theatre, Venice,
322

Sansovino, Jacopo,
184

Santa Maria Formosa district, Venice,
223

Sant’Andrea fort, Venice,
34
,
325
,
332

Santa Paola, Admiral Ponzio di,
30

Sanudo (diarist),
168

Sanuto, Marino, ‘the Elder’,
15–16
and n

San Zaccana, convent of, Venice,
219–20
,
221–2

Sardinia,
31
,
34
,
54

Savorgnan, Nanetta and Marta,
324

Savona,
75
,
76

Savoy,
85

Schulenberg, Matthias von der,
296
,
297

Schumpeter, Joseph,
305

Scotland,
171

Scuola
di San Marco, Venice,
134

Scuola Veneziana, La,
287

Sea of Azov,
31
,
44
,
54
,
56

Sea of Marmara,
55
,
102
,
104
,
106
,
253
,
256

Sebemco,
58
,
60

Selim I the Grim, Sultan,
175

Selim the Sot, Sultan,
200
,
204
,
205

Senate,
61
,
74
,
79
,
93
,
100
,
112
,
113
,
114
,
121
,
144–5
,
149
,
150
,
229
,
241
,
273
,
317
,
332

Sephardic Jews,
233

Seno, River,
132

Settimo, Guidone da,
32

Sevens, Leto,
143
,
167

Sforza, Francesco,
89
,
91
,
92
,
121
,
130
,
131
,
132

Shakespeare, William

The Merchant of Venice
,
184
,
237–8

Othello
,
146
,
184

ship-building,
26–8

Sicily,
64
,
66
,
68
,
202
,
209
,
256

Siena,
17
,
19
,
75
,
76
,
78
,
269

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor,
80
,
81
,
82

Signoria,
83
,
86
,
90
,
91
,
92
,
124
,
125
,
141
,
169
,
301

Silesia,
312

Silk Route,
56
,
174

silver,
18
,
19
,
197

Silver Standard,
197
,
213

Sinope,
28

Stxtus IV, Pope,
139

slaves/slave trade,
28–30

Sluys,
16

Smith, Joseph,
312
,
313

Smith, Logan Pearsall,
243

Smyrna,
239
,
249
,
255
,
256
,
257
,
258

Soenen, Micheline,
75

Sofu Mehmet, Grand Vizier,
253

Sokollu, Mehmed, Grand Vizier,
200
,
201
,
213

Sorbolo of Candia,
128

Souda Bay,
295
,
298

Spain,
15
,
30
,
171
,
197
,
224
,
240
,
241
,
242
,
243
,
245
,
246

Spanish Plot,
243–6
,
275

Spano, Pippo,
81
,
82

Spinalonga,
295
,
298