City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire (69 page)

Venetian agreement with crusaders,
1
,
2

Villani, Matteo,
1

Visconti, Giovanni,
1

Vlad the Impaler,
1

William of Roubruck,
1

William of Tyre,
1

winds,
1

Zane, Andrea,
1

Zanibeck Khan,
1
,
2

Zara:

bombardment by Venetian fleet,
1
;

council of crusader leaders,
1
,
2
;

destruction by Venetians,
1
;

Fourth Crusade attack,
1
,
2
;

Fourth Crusade plan,
1
,
2
;

Genoese supplies,
1
;

harbour,
1
;

Hungarian control,
1
;

Hungarian pact,
1
;

Ottoman threat,
1
;

pope’s opposition to attack,
1
;

pope’s response to sack,
1
;

sack of,
1
,
2
,
3
;

submission to Venice,
1
;

surrender,
1
;

surrender offer,
1
,
2
;

Venice relations,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Zen, Pietro,
1

Zeno, Carlo:

appointment as commissioner,
1
;

appointment as general of land forces,
1
;

attack on Chioggia,
1
;

career,
1
,
2
,
3
;

fleet,
1
,
2
;

Genoese ambassadors,
1
;

Genoese coast mission,
1
,
2
;

governor of Negroponte,
1
;

return needed for Chioggia conflict,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
;

return to Chioggia,
1

Zeno, Renier, Doge,
1
,
2

Zibaldone da Canal
,
1

Zonchio,
1
; battle of (1499),
2
,
3

Zorzi, Nicolo,
1

1 The doge’s palace, the Molo and the Basin of St Mark, with the line of sheltering
lidi
on the horizon

2 The capture of Constantinople in 1204, an iconic moment in Venetian history, as depicted by Tintoretto nearly 400 years later.

3 Departure: passengers prepare to board high-sided cogs, the bulk carriers of Venetian trade.

4 Return: fast, sleek and very low, a Venetian war galley pulls into port. The
galeotti
furl its sails.

5 The Senza. The doge boards the
Bucintoro
. The Basin of St Mark is a hubbub of ships and festive trade.

6 Venice, the golden city. The horses of Constantinople are on proud display. Merchants land produce, buy and sell. Marco Polo departs by ship for distant lands, portrayed at the bottom of the picture.

7 The gateway of the arsenal, the ‘Forge of War’

8 Arsenal carpenters fashion keels and masts, and plank out ships. Finished hulls are dry stored in sheds behind.