The Venetians: A New History: from Marco Polo to Casanova (60 page)

Spinalunga
see
Giudecca

Spino, Pietro,
127

Spinoza, Baruch,
238

Steno, Michele,
38
,
42

Stocchi, Manlio,
51

Stradivari family,
277

Straits of Gibraltar,
16

Sudan,
18

Suez isthmus,
140
,
174–5

Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan,
198
,
199–200
,
250

Sultana
(Ottoman flagship),
211

Sweden,
246

Switzerland,
25

Syria,
15
,
61
,
65
,
140
,
155
,
175

Talmudic interpretation,
238

Tanai castle,
54

Tania, River,
54

Tango, Luchino,
16–17

Tartaglia (Niccolò Fontana),
188–93
,
194–6
,
271

Tartars,
22–3
,
28–9

Tasso,
280

Teatro Malibran, Venice,
9

Teatro San Carlo, Naples,
170

Teatro Tron, Venice,
278

telescope,
272–3

Tenedos,
55–6
,
68
,
112
,
114

Thayer, W.R.,
83

Theodonc of Niem,
80

Thessaly,
295

Thirty Years War,
246

Thucydides,
23

Thule,
33

Tiber, River,
57

Tiepolo, Angiola,
316

Tiepolo, Gianbattista,
307–10
,
322

Tinos,
295
,
298

Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin),
215–17
,
218
,
223
,
224
,
247
,
307
,
309

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli),
145–6
,
168
,
177
,
179–80
,
184
,
186
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
218
,
307
,
309

Tolfa,
175

Tomasmi, Giacomo,
51

Topkapi Palace, Constantinople,
136
,
138
,
175n
,
253

Torbole,
129

Torre dell’Orologio, Venice,
302n

Toulon,
200

Tower of Anema, Constantinople,
55

Transylvania,
312

Trebizond,
8
,
9
,
28

Trevisano, Gabnele,
99

Trevisano, Marco,
120

Trevisano, Admiral Nicolò,
91
,
92

Treviso,
37
,
86
,
120
,
121
,
214
,
315
,
316

Trezzo,
126

Trieste,
24
,
120
,
255
,
285
,
320

Tripoli,
200

Tunis,
198

Turin,
68
,
85
,
304
,
327

Bishop of,
142

Turner, J.M.W,
185

Urban V, Pope,
47

Urban VIII, Pope,
256

Uluch Ali,
212
,
213

Uskoks,
243–4

Vasari, Giorgio,
137
,
177–8
,
179

Vassaf,
13–14

Vatican,
75
,
267
,
325

Library,
51

Venetia, città nohhssima
,
223

Venetian Academy,
313

Veneto, the,
165
,
168
,
171
,
214

Venice/Venetian Republic

the Polos return to,
5–9

conflict with Genoa (1298),
9–11

develpments in finance and banking,
17–20

earthquakes,
22

plague outbreak of 1348,
24
,
25–6

ship-bulldlng,
26–8

slaves and slave trade,
28–30

outbreak of war with Genoa (1352),
30

defeated at Battle of the Bosphorus,
30–1

victory at Alghero,
31

Milan becomes threat to,
32

Petrarch leads peace mission to,
32
,
33

renewed conflict with Genoa,
33–6

defeat at Porto Lungo,
36

achievements of Andrea Dandolo as doge,
36–7

Marin Falier as dog,
37–43

peace treaty signed with Genoa,
44

cedes Dalmatia to Hungary,
44

public debt,
44–5

faces revolt in Crete,
45–9

Petrarch is guest in,
49–51

and Petrarch’s library,
50
,
51–2

increasing tensions between Genoa and,
52–3

appoints two admirals to take charge of fleet,
53–5

at war with Genoa (War of Chioggia),
55–68

treaty of Turin,
68

enters new names in Golden Book,
68–9

humiliation and disgrace of Carlo Zeno,
69–70

adopts new policy of expansion on mainland,
73

glass-making,
73–4

influx of foreign merchants,
74

and Pope Gregory XII,
74–5
,
78–9
,
80

recognition of Alexander V as Pope,
79

purchase of Dalmatia from King Ladislas,
81

Emperor Sigismund claims back Dalmatia from,
81

hostilities between Sigismund and,
81–2

politics polarised between ‘Party of the Sea’ and ‘Party of the Land’,
82–3

death of Doge Mocenigo and election of

Doge Foscan,
83

and Salomca’s request for protection agains the Turks,
83–4

at war with Milan,
84
,
86–8
,
89–90
,
91–2
,
97
,
116
,
119
,
126
,
127
,
128–30

Carmagnola employed as
condotierre
by,
86–91
,
92–3

discussion about Carmagnola by authorities in,
93–4

imprisonment, trial and death of Carmagnola,
94–6

and the fall of Constantinople,
97–8
,
99
,
100
,
103–4
,
106
,
111
,
112–13

negotations with Mehmet II lead to an agreement,
113–14

deception and bribery surrounding election of Doge Foscari,
115–16

marriage of Jacopo Foscari and Lucrezia Contarini in,
116–19

action taken to deal with Jacopo Foscari’s corruption,
119–23

Doge Foscari removed from office,
123–5

Colleoni fights in the service of,
127–30
,
131–2

signs Peaee of Lodi,
131

Colleoni’s bequest to,
132
,
134–5

Colleoni’s statue,
132–4

parlous state of finances,
134

faces threat from Ottomans and signs humiliating treaty,
135

Ottoman delegation seeks to negotiate cultural exchange,
135–6

Gentile Bellini as cultural ambassador at Ottoman court,
136–8

Italian states jealous of power and perceived riches of,
138–9

alliance with Cyprus reinforced by marriage of Catenna Cornaro and James II,
141–6

fleet patrols coast of Cyprus,
147

James II of Cyprus imposes limitations on ships of,
147–8

and the coup m Cyprus,
149
,
150

assumes control over governance of Cyprus,
150

blamed by Caterina for death of her husband and child,
151

erosions in power of the doge,
152–3

and Caterina’s plight,
153

intelligence-gathering,
154

control of Cyprus under threat,
154–5

strengthens defences in Cyprus,
155

and Rizzo di Marino’s plotting,
154
,
157–60

and Caterina’s abdication,
161–4

Caterina’s life after her return to,
164–9

in conflict with League of Cambrai,
168
,
171–3
,
188
,
189

defeat at Agnadello,
172–3

new trade routes as threat to,
174

proposal to build canal across Suez isthmus,
174–5

impact of Ottoman conquest of Egypt on,
175

and alum trade,
175–6

art,
136–8
,
176–80
,
184
,
214
,
215–17
,
218
,
307–14

printing,
180–2

Aretino in,
184–6

intellectual discoveries m
16
th century,
188–96

financial changes,
197

Suleiman the Magnificent declares war on,
198

joins the Holy League formed by Pius III,
198–9

and Battle of Preveza,
199

signs humiliating treaty with Suleiman,
199–200

loss of Cyprus,
200–6

Philip II of Spain agrees to cooperate with,
209

and Battle of Lepanto,
210–13

continuing prosperity of,
213–14

outbreak of plague (1575–
7
),
214–15
,
226

women of,
218–30

prostitution,
218–19
,
222–3

nuns,
219–22

courtesans,
222–6

Jews,
24–5
,
231–40
,
314

change in attitudes towards commerce,
241–2

more executive power transferred to Council of Ten,
242

Wotton’s despatches from,
242–3

Spanish Plot,
243–6

and Thirty Years War,
246

outbreak of plague in 1630,
246–7

improvement in relations with Ottomans,
247–8

deterioration of relations with Ottomans,
249

incident sparks war with Ottomans,
249–51

at war with Ottomans,
251–4

agrees to peace treaty,
254

joins Holy League formed by Innocent XI,
254–5

and Peace of Karlowitz,
255

intellectual revolution in
17
th century,
260–75

thirst for news in,
275

spies in,
275–6
,
299

music,
277–91

at war with Ottomans in 1714–
18
,
295–8

treaty of Passarowitz,
298–9

attractions for tourists,
299

Montesquieu visits,
299–300
,
306

coffee houses,
300
,
315

gambling,
300–3
,
305–6
,
325

John Law in,
304
,
305–7

Lorenzo Da Ponte in,
314–19

Casanova in,
322–5
,
326
,
327–9

pursues policy of neutrality,
330

finally caves in to French threats and expels Louis XVIII,
330–1

permits Austrian troops to cross its territory,
331

rejects offer of alliance with France,
332

faces advancing French revolutionary army,
332–3

occupied by the French,
333

Venier, Domenico,
224
and n,
226

Vemer, Maffio,
225–6

Venier, Marco,
224

Venier, Sebastiano,
209
,
210
,
224n

Venier, Tito,
45
,
46
,
48
,
49

Verme, Luchino dal,
47
,
48
,
49

Vernier, Antonio,
121

Verona,
32
,
73
,
81
,
130
,
189
,
205
,
284
,
330
,
331
,
332

Veronese, Paolo,
67
,
215
,
216
,
308

Verrocchio, Andrea del: statue of Colleoni,
133–4
,
176

Versailles,
290

Vesalius, Andreas,
187
,
260

Vicenza,
73
,
214

Vienna,
235
,
254
,
285
,
286
,
291
,
315
,
319
,
320
,
327
,
329

Vigevano,
195

Vikings,
16n
,
28

Villa Pratolmo,
228

Villiers, Elizabeth,
303

Visconti, Antonia,
85

Visconti, Bernabo,
44

Visconti, Filippo Maria,
84–5
,
86
,
87
,
88
,
90
,
91
,
95
,
96
,
126
,
128
,
130

Visconti, Galeazzo,
44

Visconti, Gian Galeazzo,
73
,
84
,
126

Visconti, Giovanni,
32
,
33
,
44

Visconti, Matteo II,
44

Vivaldi, Antonio,
280–7
,
291
,
322