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Pages: 388
Pages: 388
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visu
Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:
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