Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon: Studies in Urban History
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/26/1985
EAN 9780521302753, ISBN10: 0521302757
Hardcover, 368 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
This 1985 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.
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.