Summary of Thomas F. Madden's Venice

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#1 The city of Venice was built by the Romans, who were a determined people who wanted to resist the changes that swept Europe. They wanted to remain loyal to their state and to one another, and they wanted to remain Catholics in communion with the pope in Rome.

#2 The Venetian lagoon off the coast of Italy was a haunt of fishermen and wharf workers in the Roman era. It was one of a string of lagoons that stretched from Ravenna to Aquileia, and each was connected by Roman navigational channels.

#3 The Veneto region was a melting pot of cultures, and it was here that the city of Venice was founded. The Veneto people were industrious, and their cities were crisscrossed by Roman roads bearing merchandise to the region’s markets and factories.

#4 The city of Venice was founded in 421 by three Roman officials who were sent to Rivoalto, or high bank, an island group in the center of the lagoon. The first refugees preferred the higher, wooded islands on the lagoon’s periphery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822526310

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The city of Venice was built by the Romans, who were a determined people who wanted to resist the changes that swept Europe. They wanted to remain loyal to their state and to one another, and they wanted to remain Catholics in communion with the pope in Rome.

#2

The Venetian lagoon off the coast of Italy was a haunt of fishermen and wharf workers in the Roman era. It was one of a string of lagoons that stretched from Ravenna to Aquileia, and each was connected by Roman navigational channels.

#3

The Veneto region was a melting pot of cultures, and it was here that the city of Venice was founded. The Veneto people were industrious, and their cities were crisscrossed by Roman roads bearing merchandise to the region’s markets and factories.

#4

The city of Venice was founded in 421 by three Roman officials who were sent to Rivoalto, or high bank, an island group in the center of the lagoon. The first refugees preferred the higher, wooded islands on the lagoon’s periphery.

#5

The city of Aquileia was the capital of the region of Venetia, which was overrun by the Huns in 456. The city was destroyed, and its citizens were sold into slavery or put to the sword. The rest fled to the nearby island of Grado.

#6

The Venetians were a tenacious people who refused to cooperate with the times. In the late third century, the Roman Empire had been divided into two halves by the emperor Diocletian. The Veneto was situated in the western half, and thus subject to the emperors in Rome. In 330, the first Christian emperor, Constantine I, founded a new capital for the eastern half of the empire, which came to be called Constantinople.

#7

The first Venetians did not have much, except for their equality and amity among each other. They lived simply and focused on their salt works, which provided them with a source of income.

#8

The lagoon did not offer much in the way of foodstuffs, so the Venetians had to import them. They built saltworks that allowed lagoon water to flow during high tide into wide basins, where it was trapped and left to evaporate in the sun.

#9

The Roman Empire continued to decline after Justinian’s death in 565. The Lombards, a Germanic tribe, conquered much of Italy, and the Byzantines were unable to stop them. The citizens of the Veneto cities fled to the lagoon, where they would stay.

#10

The collapse of the Roman government in western Europe left a power vacuum in the rapidly shrinking cities there. The Catholic Church took on more and more responsibility, and the pope in Rome or the archbishop in Milan often found himself saddled with a host of responsibilities that had nothing to do with the shepherding of souls.

#11

After the Lombards destroyed Altino, some of the citizens settled on the nearby islands of Burano and Mazzorbo. Torcello was named for a gate that was near a tower in the old city.

#12

The patriarch of Aquileia had authority over all the bishops in Istria and across the upper Adriatic, including all the churches in the Venetian lagoon. He was no different canonically from any