Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon : Studies in Urban History (Paperback)

Part I. Chioggia: 1. Introduction; 2. Origins of the town; 3. Early medieval Chioggia; 4. Local records from the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century; 5. The late medieval apogee and the war of 1380; 6. Reconstruction of the town 1380?1400; 7. Chioggia in the quattrocento: retrenchment and social problems; 8. The sixteenth century: civic pride and financial decline; 9. From Sabbadino to the second great plague, 1630; 10. The later seicento and the building boom of the eighteenth century; 11. The Napoleonic survey: nineteenth-century postscript; Part II. The Lidi of the Southern Lagoon; Part III. The Northern Venetian Lagoon Burano; Part IV. Some Notes on Other Venetian Sites; Part V. Three Other Lagunar Settlements; Part VI. Conclusions.