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

by Richard J. Goy

• ISBN13: 9780521089364
• ISBN10: 0521089360
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is the study of the history of a group of villages, and one large town, that lie in the lagoons that surround Venice. Although written by an architect, it is not concerned solely with architecture, but with the whole history of the settlements, their origins, their growth and development, the occupations of their inhabitants, and the reasons for their prosperity or decline over the centuries. The book will interest professional architects and historians, many of whom will be familiar with the history and environment of Venice itself. It will also attract a more general reader, and perhaps lovers of Venice, and engender a desire to explore beyond St Mark's Square and the Rialto markets, to discover or rediscover the lesser riches of these modest but fascinating communities, whose physical environment, like that of Venice itself, has changed very little over the last two hundred years.

Table of Contents

Chioggia

Introduction

Origins of the town

Early medieval Chioggia

Local records from the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century

The late medieval apogee and the war of 1380

Reconstruction of the town 1380-1400

Chioggia in the quattrocento: retrenchment and social problems

The sixteenth century: civic pride and financial decline

From Sabbadino to the second great plague, 1630

The later seicento and the building boom of the eighteenth century

The Napoleonic survey: nineteenth-century postscript

The lidi of the southern lagoon

The northern Venetian lagoon Burano

Some notes on other Venetian sites

Three other lagunar settlements

Conclusions

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