books.google.com - During the Renaissance, there were two centres of art, culture and mercantile power in Italy: Florence, and Venice. This is a sourcebook of promary materials, almost none previously available in English, for the history of the city-state of Venice. The time period covers the apogee of Venetian power...http://books.google.com/books/about/Venice.html?id=ZaHt76Uk2m8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareVenice
