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Ancestor City Of Venice Discovered By Satellite Imaging

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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2008, 01:56:38 pm »










                                                      A TURNING POINT





In 1494 Italy was invaded by Charles VIII of France, an intervention which Venice lost no time in exploiting. By playing the various territorial contenders off against each other, Venice succeeded in adding bits and pieces to the her "land-state". by the end of the 15th C Venice held a vast portion of territory, coveting greater imperialistic ambitions which will eventually come down on her head. By now, the Italian powers were in fact suspicious that Venice may upset the balance of power and dominate the whole peninsula.

The last straw fell in 1503, when the Venetians found the temptation to strike at the Papal State. Enough was enough.

The pope, France, Germany and other Italian city-states formed an alliance against Venice - the League of Cambrai - and smashed her army at Agnadello in 1509. The fall of the Venetian state seemed inevitable. Yet, shrewd diplomacy and a shift of the alliances made it possible for Venice to recover practically all her possession on the mainland

The Venetian government, however, realized that the City could no longer match wits with the great European powers. They decided to drop further expansionistic ambitions and go for a policy of neutrality. Their frailty and impotence could never be admitted and were in fact masked as a decision of its wise administration. Venice began to address herself as the Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic, claiming to be a model to regard with no less admiration than those of the Greeks' and the Romans' in ancient times.

 Her government has decided to devote all energies to the strengthening of institutions and the reorganising of her relationships with the subject territories and with European and Italian states. Basically, a policy of public relations to promote the Myth of a glorious state whose force was still to be reckoned with.

The new course transpires in the works of art produced throughout the century. The paintings in the Ducal Palace - the Government building - reflect the glory of Venice and illustrate land battles, sea fights, diplomatic victories... The allegorical and mythological scenes are added with propagandist significance and conscripted into Venetian service.
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