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Nicola Bergamo's in-depth study proposes an historical excursus on the evolution of relations between the nascent city of Venice and the powerful Byzantine empire, from the first Venetian settlements in the lagoon eaves of the Augustan X Regio Venetia et Histria, through the devastating gothic wars and the Longobard invasion, until the fiscal liberation of 1082 with the chrysobolla granted by the basileus Alessio I Comneno, which greatly increased the commercial fortune of the Venetians within the Mediterranean, consolidating what would become a shining thousand-year-old republic. A change also in the political power that from the exarch, the tribune and the magister militum would pass to the elite families who elected the first duces, and would move its centre of gravity from the primitive capital Civitanova on the mainland to the lagoon nucleus of Rivoalto around which the city would develop, seeking a solution to the continuous struggles between the patriarchates of Grado and Aquileia and the assaults of the Narentan pirates who crossed the ships on their way to Constantinople.
The essay is accompanied by an introductory text by PierAlvise Zorzi.
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Nicola Bergamo's in-depth study proposes an historical excursus on the evolution of relations between the nascent city of Venice and the powerful Byzantine empire, from the first Venetian settlements in the lagoon eaves of the Augustan X Regio Venetia et Histria, through the devastating gothic wars and the Longobard invasion, until the fiscal liberation of 1082 with the chrysobolla granted by the basileus Alessio I Comneno, which greatly increased the commercial fortune of the Venetians within the Mediterranean, consolidating what would become a shining thousand-year-old republic. A change also in the political power that from the exarch, the tribune and the magister militum would pass to the elite families who elected the first duces, and would move its centre of gravity from the primitive capital Civitanova on the mainland to the lagoon nucleus of Rivoalto around which the city would develop, seeking a solution to the continuous struggles between the patriarchates of Grado and Aquileia and the assaults of the Narentan pirates who crossed the ships on their way to Constantinople.
The essay is accompanied by an introductory text by PierAlvise Zorzi.
Author Biography
Nicola Bergamo was born in Venice in 1977 and graduated in History at Ca' Foscari University with a thesis on the exarchal army. He then moved to Belfast where he obtained a Master of Arts in Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek. In 2009 he worked as a junior researcher at Notre Dame University (USA). In 2011 he was accepted as a doctoral student at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he learned the methodology on the historical approach typical of "les annales" (nouvelle histoire). In 2014 he was a visiting fellow at Fordham University (USA).
He published "Constantine V" (2007), "The Longobards" (2012), "Irene, Emperor of Byzantium" (2015), "Charles Zen" (2018). He is scientific director of the international journal of Byzantine studies "Porphyra".
Helvetia Editrice
Edizioni Helvetia was born in 1972 from an idea of the poet and musician Gianni Spagnol who, after a six-year experience in Zurich as a printer at an important publishing complex, wanted to found in Venice - between Campo San Rocco and Campo San Tomà, not far from the Frari Church - a printing house/publishing house that would promote and stimulate the historical-literary production of the Venetian and Venetian area in detail. Then, with the 90s, the company was moved to the mainland. In 2006, with the acquisition by its granddaughter Daniela Spagnol, the name changed to Helvetia Editrice and the publications continued to explore themes linked to the territory, especially in the "Rosso Veneziano" series - which gathers historical curiosities, with a "popular" and mainly narrative slant - and the "VeneziaeVenetoVivo" series - more linked to pure historical non-fiction and documentation. Enriched with non-fiction and fiction, since 2019 Helvetia has been back in the game with two series that challenge the usual comfort zone by leaving the local territory: "Taccuini d'Autore" (Author's Notebooks), which collects books on the road, texts that travel and travel along the frontier of writing; and "Nuovi Territori" (New Territories), a line created to enhance new authors and unusual topics from experimental themes.
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- Publisher/Imprint Helvetia Editrice / Helvetia Editrice
- Publication Date May 2018
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788895215686
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatBook
- Pages208
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titlevenezia bizantina
- Original Language Authorsitalian
- Copyright Year2018
- Page size14 x 20 cm (14 x 20 cm) cm
- IllustrationIcona dell'Arcangelo Michele - Basilica di San Marco
- SeriesVeneto Vivo
- Series Part33
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