Peloponnese, 35, 53, 57, 113, 114, 120, 123, 145, 251, 254, 255, 295, 298
Peri, Jacopo: Euridice, 278, 280
Persia, 61
Persian Gulf, 15
perspicillum, 272–3
Peru, 197
Peruzzi family, 19
Peter II, King of Cyprus, 52, 55
Peterwardem, Battle of, 296
Petrarch, 25, 32–3, 37, 41, 42, 49–52, 53, 176, 181, 224, 281
Philadelphia, 320
Phdargos, Petros see Alexander V, Pope
Philip II, King of Spain, 202, 209, 210
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, 304
Phocaea, 175
Piacenza, 126
Piazza San Marco, Venice, 49, 61, 62, 117, 118, 132, 133, 300, 314, 333
Piazzetta, Venice, 39 and n, 40, 41, 95, 122, 160, 329
Piccimno, Niccolò, 128, 131, 132
Piedmont, 286
Piombi, Il (The Leads), Venice, 327–8, 329
Piraeus, 28
Pisa, 44, 269
Council of, 77, 78, 79, 93–4
Leaning Tower of, 270
University, 269, 270
Pisani, Admiral Andrea, 298
Pisani, Nicolò, 30, 31, 33–4, 35, 36, 54
Pisani, Vettore, 54–5, 56, 57–8, 58–9, 62, 63–4, 66, 68, 70
Pisani family, 30 see also names of individuals
Pitigliano, Niccolò, 172, 173
Pitti Palace, Florence, 228
Pius II, Pope, 175
Pius III, Pope, 198
Pius V Pope, 202, 209
plague, 22–6, 28, 29, 30, 213, 214–15, 226, 246–7, 280
Pola, 58
Battle of, 58–9, 60
Poland, 16, 188, 260, 309
Polidoro, Girolamo, 205–6
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 254
Polo, Maffeo, 5–8
Polo, Marco (Il Milione), 5–8, 9, 11–14, 15, 18, 29, 276, 291
Polo, Niccolò, 5–8
Pompadour, Madame, 327
Ponte, Lorenzo Da see Da Ponte, Lorenzo Po river system, 86, 91
delta, 116
Porto Lungo, 35, 36, 37, 38, 54
Portugal, 174, 241, 242
Potsi ‘Silver Mountain’, 197
Prague, 272
Prester John, 16
Preveza, Battle of, 199, 210
printing, 180–2
Pnuli, Captain-General Francesco, 161, 162, 164, 166, 167, 169
prostitution, 218–19, 222–3
Protestantism, 243, 266, 267
Prussia, 312, 330
Ptolemy/Ptolemaic ideas, 260–1, 270, 273
Puritans, 238
Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt, 154, 156, 158, 159–60, 161, 162, 164
Querino, Laura, 219–22
Quirino, Francesco, 65
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 5, 7, 8, 11
Raphael, 182, 297
Ravignam, Bemntendi, 50
Real (Don Juan’s flagship), 211
Recanati, 80
Red Sea, 140, 174
Reformation, 240n
Renaissance, 32, 82, 136, 165, 174–5, 176, 177 184, 246, 265, 309, 310 see also names of artists and intellectuals
Rethimno, 45, 48
Revolutionary Wars, 330
Rhodes, 47, 64, 65, 100, 157, 164, 250
Rialto, Venice, 61, 112–13, 304
Rialto Bridge, Venice, 6, 74, 301, 313
Ricci, Ostilio, 269
Richard I, King of England, 140
Ruhignona (treasure ship), 65
Richter, Jean Paul, 155
Ridotto, Venice, 302–3, 304, 305–6, 325
Rimini, 81, 167, 171
Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, 29, 49, 219, 281
Rizzo, Antonio, 99
Roccafranca, 90
Romagna, 127, 171
Roman Empire, 61, 115
Rome
Petrarch crowned ‘poet laureate’ in, 32
and Great Schism, 75
occupied by King Ladislas of Naples, 76
and Ottoman ambitions, 139
Charlotte of Cyprus and Louis of Savoy in, 141
Charlotte buried in, 154–5
Aretino in, 182–3, 183–4
Inquisition, 237, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 274, 275
news of Ottoman activities reaches, 251
Venice surrenders Bruno to, 267
Bruno’s imprisonment, trial and death in, 267–9
Copernican theory declared heretical, 274
Galileo faces Inquisition in, 274
Canaletto in, 310
Casanova in, 325–6
brief references, 29, 51, 61, 73, 222, 260, 270, 283
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 316–17, 318, 327
Rovereto, 129
Royal Library, Windsor, 155
Russia, 22, 254, 309
Rustichello of Pisa, 11–12, 14
Ruzzini, Carlo, 298–9
Sabbateanism, 239, 240
Sabellico, Marcantomo, 89, 92–3, 95
Safiye (Sofia Baffo), 248–9
St Peter’s, Rome, 154–5
St Petersburg, 326
St Ursula, convent of, Padua, 143
Salieri, Antonio, 319, 320
Salonica, 83, 84, 97
Salviati bank, 227
San Barnaba district, Venice, 117, 118
San Cassiano, church of, Venice, 169
San Cristoforo, monastery of, Murano, 160
San Giovanni e Paolo, church of, Venice, 206
San Luca, church of, Venice, 317
San Luca, fortress of, Cremona, 93, 127
San Marco (St Mark’s), Venice, 22, 61, 86–7, 125, 164, 169, 176, 213, 216, 280, 281
Sacristy, 184
San Matteo convent, Arcetri, 274
San Nicolò di Lido, Venice, 34, 59, 60
San Rocco, school of, Venice, 216
San Salvatore, monastery of, Venice, 40
San Samuele, church of, Venice, 117
San Samuele theatre, Venice, 322
Sansovino, Jacopo, 184
Santa Maria Formosa district, Venice, 223
Sant’Andrea fort, Venice, 34, 325, 332
Santa Paola, Admiral Ponzio di, 30
Sanudo (diarist), 168
Sanuto, Marino, ‘the Elder’, 15–16 and n
San Zaccana, convent of, Venice, 219–20, 221–2
Sardinia, 31, 34, 54
Savorgnan, Nanetta and Marta, 324
Savona, 75, 76
Savoy, 85
Schulenberg, Matthias von der, 296, 297
Schumpeter, Joseph, 305
Scotland, 171
Scuola di San Marco, Venice, 134
Scuola Veneziana, La, 287
Sea of Azov, 31, 44, 54, 56
Sea of Marmara, 55, 102, 104, 106, 253, 256
Sebemco, 58, 60
Selim I the Grim, Sultan, 175
Selim the Sot, Sultan, 200, 204, 205
Senate, 61, 74, 79, 93, 100, 112, 113, 114, 121, 144–5, 149, 150, 229, 241, 273, 317, 332
Sephardic Jews, 233
Seno, River, 132
Settimo, Guidone da, 32
Sevens, Leto, 143, 167
Sforza, Francesco, 89, 91, 92, 121, 130, 131, 132
Shakespeare, William
The Merchant of Venice, 184, 237–8
Othello, 146, 184
ship-building, 26–8
Sicily, 64, 66, 68, 202, 209, 256
Siena, 17, 19, 75, 76, 78, 269
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 80, 81, 82
Signoria, 83, 86, 90, 91, 92, 124, 125, 141, 169, 301
Silesia, 312
Silk Route, 56, 174
silver, 18, 19, 197
Silver Standard, 197, 213
Sinope, 28
Stxtus IV, Pope, 139
slaves/slave trade, 28–30
Sluys, 16
Smith, Joseph, 312, 313
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 243
Smyrna, 239, 249, 255, 256, 257, 258
Soenen, Micheline, 75
Sofu Mehmet, Grand Vizier, 253
Sokollu, Mehmed, Grand Vizier, 200, 201, 213
Sorbolo of Candia, 128
Souda Bay, 295, 298
Spain, 15, 30, 171, 197, 224, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246
Spanish Plot, 243–6, 275
Spano, Pippo, 81, 82
Spinalonga, 295, 298
Spinalunga see Giudecca
Spino, Pietro, 127
Spinoza, Baruch, 238
Steno, Michele, 38, 42
Stocchi, Manlio, 51
Stradivari family, 277
Straits of Gibraltar, 16
Sudan, 18
Suez isthmus, 140, 174–5
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 198, 199–200, 250
Sultana (Ottoman flagship), 211
Sweden, 246
Switzerland, 25
Syria, 15, 61, 65, 140, 155, 175
Talmudic interpretation, 238
Tanai castle, 54
Tania, River, 54
Tango, Luchino, 16–17
Tartaglia (Niccolò Fontana), 188–93, 194–6, 271
Tartars, 22–3, 28–9
Tasso, 280
Teatro Malibran, Venice, 9
Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 170
Teatro Tron, Venice, 278
telescope, 272–3
Tenedos, 55–6, 68, 112, 114
Thayer, W.R., 83
Theodonc of Niem, 80
Thessaly, 295
Thirty Years War, 246
Thucydides, 23
Thule, 33
Tiber, River, 57
Tiepolo, Angiola, 316
Tiepolo, Gianbattista, 307–10, 322
Tinos, 295, 298
Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin), 215–17, 218, 223, 224, 247, 307, 309
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), 145–6, 168, 177, 179–80, 184, 186, 214, 215, 216, 218, 307, 309
Tolfa, 175
Tomasmi, Giacomo, 51
Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, 136, 138, 175n, 253
Torbole, 129
Torre dell’Orologio, Venice, 302n
Toulon, 200
Tower of Anema, Constantinople, 55
Transylvania, 312
Trebizond, 8, 9, 28
Trevisano, Gabnele, 99
Trevisano, Marco, 120
Trevisano, Admiral Nicolò, 91, 92
Treviso, 37, 86, 120, 121, 214, 315, 316
Trezzo, 126
Trieste, 24, 120, 255, 285, 320
Tripoli, 200
Tunis, 198
Turin, 68, 85, 304, 327
Bishop of, 142
Turner, J.M.W, 185
Urban V, Pope, 47
Urban VIII, Pope, 256
Uluch Ali, 212, 213
Uskoks, 243–4
Vasari, Giorgio, 137, 177–8, 179
Vassaf, 13–14
Vatican, 75, 267, 325
Library, 51
Venetia, città nohhssima, 223
Venetian Academy, 313
Veneto, the, 165, 168, 171, 214
Venice/Venetian Republic
the Polos return to, 5–9
conflict with Genoa (1298), 9–11
develpments in finance and banking, 17–20
earthquakes, 22
plague outbreak of 1348, 24, 25–6
ship-bulldlng, 26–8
slaves and slave trade, 28–30
outbreak of war with Genoa (1352), 30
defeated at Battle of the Bosphorus, 30–1
victory at Alghero, 31
Milan becomes threat to, 32
Petrarch leads peace mission to, 32, 33
renewed conflict with Genoa, 33–6
defeat at Porto Lungo, 36
achievements of Andrea Dandolo as doge, 36–7
Marin Falier as dog, 37–43
peace treaty signed with Genoa, 44
cedes Dalmatia to Hungary, 44
public debt, 44–5
faces revolt in Crete, 45–9
Petrarch is guest in, 49–51
and Petrarch’s library, 50, 51–2
appoints two admirals to take charge of fleet, 53–5
at war with Genoa (War of Chioggia), 55–68
treaty of Turin, 68
enters new names in Golden Book, 68–9
humiliation and disgrace of Carlo Zeno, 69–70
adopts new policy of expansion on mainland, 73
glass-making, 73–4
influx of foreign merchants, 74
and Pope Gregory XII, 74–5, 78–9, 80
recognition of Alexander V as Pope, 79
purchase of Dalmatia from King Ladislas, 81
Emperor Sigismund claims back Dalmatia from, 81
hostilities between Sigismund and, 81–2
politics polarised between ‘Party of the Sea’ and ‘Party of the Land’, 82–3
death of Doge Mocenigo and election of
Doge Foscan, 83
and Salomca’s request for protection agains the Turks, 83–4
at war with Milan, 84, 86–8, 89–90, 91–2, 97, 116, 119, 126, 127, 128–30
Carmagnola employed as condotierre by, 86–91, 92–3
discussion about Carmagnola by authorities in, 93–4
imprisonment, trial and death of Carmagnola, 94–6
and the fall of Constantinople, 97–8, 99, 100, 103–4, 106, 111, 112–13
negotations with Mehmet II lead to an agreement, 113–14
deception and bribery surrounding election of Doge Foscari, 115–16
marriage of Jacopo Foscari and Lucrezia Contarini in, 116–19
action taken to deal with Jacopo Foscari’s corruption, 119–23
Doge Foscari removed from office, 123–5
Colleoni fights in the service of, 127–30, 131–2
signs Peaee of Lodi, 131
Colleoni’s bequest to, 132, 134–5
Colleoni’s statue, 132–4
parlous state of finances, 134
faces threat from Ottomans and signs humiliating treaty, 135
Ottoman delegation seeks to negotiate cultural exchange, 135–6
Gentile Bellini as cultural ambassador at Ottoman court, 136–8
Italian states jealous of power and perceived riches of, 138–9
alliance with Cyprus reinforced by marriage of Catenna Cornaro and James II, 141–6
fleet patrols coast of Cyprus, 147
James II of Cyprus imposes limitations on ships of, 147–8
and the coup m Cyprus, 149, 150
assumes control over governance of Cyprus, 150
blamed by Caterina for death of her husband and child, 151
erosions in power of the doge, 152–3
and Caterina’s plight, 153
intelligence-gathering, 154
control of Cyprus under threat, 154–5
strengthens defences in Cyprus, 155
and Rizzo di Marino’s plotting, 154, 157–60
and Caterina’s abdication, 161–4
Caterina’s life after her return to, 164–9
in conflict with League of Cambrai, 168, 171–3, 188, 189
defeat at Agnadello, 172–3
new trade routes as threat to, 174
proposal to build canal across Suez isthmus, 174–5
impact of Ottoman conquest of Egypt on, 175
and alum trade, 175–6
art, 136–8, 176–80, 184, 214, 215–17, 218, 307–14
printing, 180–2
Aretino in, 184–6
intellectual discoveries m 16th century, 188–96
financial changes, 197
Suleiman the Magnificent declares war on, 198
joins the Holy League formed by Pius III, 198–9
and Battle of Preveza, 199
signs humiliating treaty with Suleiman, 199–200
loss of Cyprus, 200–6
Philip II of Spain agrees to cooperate
with, 209
and Battle of Lepanto, 210–13
continuing prosperity of, 213–14
outbreak of plague (1575–7), 214–15, 226
women of, 218–30
prostitution, 218–19, 222–3
nuns, 219–22
courtesans, 222–6
Jews, 24–5, 231–40, 314
change in attitudes towards commerce, 241–2
more executive power transferred to Council of Ten, 242
Wotton’s despatches from, 242–3
Spanish Plot, 243–6
and Thirty Years War, 246
outbreak of plague in 1630, 246–7
improvement in relations with Ottomans, 247–8
deterioration of relations with Ottomans, 249
incident sparks war with Ottomans, 249–51
at war with Ottomans, 251–4
agrees to peace treaty, 254
joins Holy League formed by Innocent XI, 254–5
and Peace of Karlowitz, 255
intellectual revolution in 17th century, 260–75
thirst for news in, 275