Venice, birth of a city
By: Piero Ventura ; English translation/adaptation by John Grisewood.
Contributors: Bettini, Sergio.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Venice (Italy) -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature.; Venice (Italy) -- History.
Description: Traces the history of the city built on islands in the Adriatic Sea from its establishment in A.D. 452 to the height of its political and economic power as a colonial empire and cultural center in the 1400's to its conquest by Napoleon in 1797.
Notes: Adaptation of: Venezia, nascita di una città / Sergio Bettini.