VENICE
(VENEZIA)
The decline of the Mediterranean
traffic that followed the discovery of America, together with
the advancement of the Ottoman population in the Mediterranean,
signalled a final wane also of its commercial power: Cyprus
(1569), Candia and Famagosta (1645-69), the Morea (Peace of
Passarowitz, 1718) which were lost to the Turks. The city
went downhill until it was occupied (1796) by the Napoleonic
troops, who surrendered it to the Austrian Empire (Treaty
of Campoformio, 1797).
Returned to the French (Peace of Presburgo, 1805) and included
in the Italico Reign, it was then returned to the Asburgo’s
after the Congress of Vienna (1815), reduced to a second rate
economic and cultural centre. The hostility towards the Imperial
Government, was openly manifested through the revolt of 1848,
by throwing out the Austrians and proclaiming it the Republic
of St. Marks (23.3.1848, governed by Daniel Manin), then resigning
to a long siege until 11.8.1849. In 1866 (3a War of Independence),
it was annexed to the Italian Reign.
The history of Venice is entwined with that of its art, shown
by the remarkable and innumerable monuments which characterize
its “sestieri,” that is, the districts in which
the city is divided. The two main nuclei are however, the
entire architectonic of St.Marks Square – which includes
the Cathedral (11th Century onwards), the Tower (9th-1477
Century), the Clock Tower (1499), the Old Procurator (1514),
the New Procurator (1582-1640), the Ducal Palace (1340-15th
century), the Marciana Library (16th Century) – the
bourgeois-commercial area of Rialto, characterized by the
homonymic Bridge of 1591, the area of the Market and that
of the banks of “Wine” and “Coal”.
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