Why Venice was Crushed from the Sixteenth Century

Venice in 1400 looked as if it would become the centre of the world. It was rich, creative, the centre of a great seaborne Empire. Yet it was unable to move beyond because of a number of political and other pressures, including the jealousy of the great powers of Europe, the costs of war on mainland Italy and the recurrence of bubonic plague.

[Filmed on a church tower looking out over the city]

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