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Adriatic : a two-thousand-year history of the sea, lands and peoples / Caroline Boggis-Rolfe.

by Boggis-Rolfe, Caroline.

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Amberley Publishing, c2022.

909.09822 B674a

Ocean and civilization.

Rome -- History.

Byzantine Empire -- History.

9781445695051 (hc.)

448 p. : col. ill., geneal. tables, maps, ; 24 cm.

Caroline Boggis-Rolfe is a writer and lecturer. After receiving a B.A. in Italian from London University, she followed her husband to Berlin in 1969 where he worked for the British Commanders’-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces. Their proximity and access to Iron Curtain countries piqued Caroline’s interest in the Baltic region, and she was able to regularly visit Dresden, Leipzig, and Potsdam in the 1970s. This led to her first work of history, The Baltic Story. Her interest in northern Europe was renewed thanks to her thesis on Voltaire, who knew both Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II of Russia. Over the past ten years, Caroline has been a regular visitor to the Baltic as a guest lecturer. Caroline's new book draws on her Italian degree and experience of living on the Adriatic coast, where she began to research the long history of the nations of the region. She holds a Master and Doctor of French from UCL.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 416-428).

Section I: Ravenna, the capital of the west. Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius, last Roman emperor of the East and West. Theodoric the Ostrogoth and the End of the Roman Empire in the West. -- Section II: Puglia: the early Middle Ages. The Norman rulers of southern Italy. The Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II: 'the Boy from Puglia'. -- Section III: The early growth of Venice. Traders, crusaders and conquerors. Competition and conflict in the Stato da Mar. -- Section IV: The quattrocento, a century of turmoil. Skanderbeg, Albania's great leader and his Argonese allies. The papal states and the great condottieri. -- Section V: The Sforza women. Caterina, the Madonna di Forlì. Bona, the Polish queen from Bari. -- Section VI: The last years of Venice's terraferma. Two centuries of art and war. The Serenissima's last days of carnival. -- Section VII: Changing borders; and strange alliances. Napoleon's expanding empire. Ali Pasha, the 'Lion of Ioannina', and Lord Byron. -- Section VIII: Revolution and rejection. Venice's fight for independence and the unification of Italy. Dreams and disillusionment: Austria's Archduke Maximilian and the Empress Elizabeth. -- Section IX: Path to the Great War. Assassinations, opposition, and the fight for independence. Italy's dictators: D'Annunzio and Mussolini.

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