A Complete History of Venice

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  @EpichistoryTv · 2 years ago · pinned

  We hope you enjoy our new, completed history of the Republic of Venice! Don’t forget, if you want to watch all our videos first, and ad-free, come and join us at Nebula, with 40% off an annual subscription using our link: <a href="https://go.nebula.tv/EpicHistoryTV">https://go.nebula.tv/EpicHistoryTV</a>.<br><br>Thank you for watching, and of course a huge thank you to all our Patreon supporters. Get exclusive production updates, votes on future topics, as well as ad-free, early access to all our new videos by signing up here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV">https://www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV</a>.<br><br>What was your favourite part of the Serene Republic&apos;s long history? Let us know in the comments!

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  @EthanBetts-k7z · 1 year ago

  Don&apos;t worry Venetians, i&apos;m gonna play a Venice campaign in EU4 and make Venice a world power to last

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  @FMmffmFM · 2 years ago

  I live in veneto and you can still find old people saying &quot; if only Napoleon had minded his own business...&quot; And I&apos;m firmly determined to uphold this tradition 🦁

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  @secretbaguette · 2 years ago

  Everyone thinks of the Roman empire, but every so often I like to spare Venice a thought.

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  @JuanFrochleichten · 2 years ago (edited)

  Regarding the arts, Venice is the place where the violin, Viola, and cello was first made, and also the birthplace of the world&apos;s great classical composers, such as Benedetto Marcello, Tomaso Albinoni, and Antonio Vivaldi! The maestros/masters of classical music, their work is extraordinary!!

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  @novomute4281 · 2 years ago

  5 years of waiting has come to an end!

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  @jessedellross3245 · 2 years ago

  One of the greatest and most beautiful cities in the world. A living example of the great architecture of the Italian renaissance.

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  @crazylizard1889 · 2 years ago

  Now we need an EHTV Italian Wars series. No other channel blends coherence, conciseness and retention like this, making EHTV the only place suitable to explain one of the most topsy turvy periods in Western history.

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  @giltineful · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1iuxFHTJyU&amp;t=1122">18:42</a> yes, but the case of Venice was different from the other Italian states. The Serenissima could count, other than her resources and diplomacy, on the fierce loyalty of her population, in particular the peasants, who engaged the League&apos;s troops in a guerrilla-like warfare, together with the regular Venetian troops. &nbsp;These civilians would sabotage and attack the enemy, especially when they were on the move, even sometimes capturing some of their captains, like the Marquis of Mantua. An astonished &nbsp;Macchiavelli wrote how the people were willing to die as subjects of Venice rather than subjects of France or the Empire. The most emblematic case was the city of Treviso, &quot;the right eye of Venice&quot;, &quot; our most beloved firstborn daughter&quot;. After Agnadello, all the Republic&apos;s cities were surrending to the League, so to avoid plundering and destruction. Only Treviso refused to bend the knee to the Emperor Maximilian, renewing her feilty to Venice and sending there as prisoners all those who were considered &nbsp;potential traitors. It was the wake-up call Venice needed after the shock of Agnadello. From Treviso, Venice started her &quot;Reconquista&quot; with &nbsp;the future Doge Andrea Gritti freeing Padua from the German occupation, the second middle finger the Republic gave to the overconfident League of Cambrai. It was said, after Gritti&apos;s successful recapture of Padua, that Julius II threw his berretta and started to curse St. Peter and his throne. Treviso was seiged twice and twice won against the Germans and the French, the only city in the Republic who never suffered occupation nor plundering. <br>There are so many other cases of patriotism among the population; it is such a pity it gets overlooked because it was also thanks to the sacrifice and the resiliance of these civilians that Venice could face all odds.

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  @SolidAvenger1290 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Despite being only a small superpower in Europe, Venice was actually an &quot;Empire of Laws&quot; that inspired many people. This included Thomas Jefferson in a minor way to help create the US Constitution&apos;s laws &amp; amendments amid Venice&apos;s unique government &amp; Venice&apos;s tolerance of different religions co-existing. Moreover, Venice indirectly became the West&apos;s Constantinople with it&apos;s very strong natural defense. <br><br>(Edit): The Magna Carta of 1215 and the English Bill of Rights of 1688 did enable the total creation of the US Constitution, but Jefferson, in his deep fascination with Venice&apos;s government, went further in the overall structure of the Constitution regarding checks and balances of government, given that Venice&apos;s system had stopped corruption before it could ever spread and stamped out many ideological parties that were becoming too powerful. <br><br>The Virginians during and after the Revolution saw how Venice had stood tall throughout many centuries. Given the geographic similarities to Eastern Virginia, they saw themselves replicating their success in terms of creating a new government that would align with the ideas of the Enlightenment, where many artists, poets, and even those who stood against the Catholic Church&apos;s corruption amid the reformation could still flourish with other Catholics inside Venice.

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  @lorenzogiovannini5417 · 2 years ago

  I am from Italy, precisely from Bergamo and around the old city there is still the imposing city wall built by the Venetians and above each entrance door there is the winged lion symbol of Venice; I recommend everyone if you have the possibility to go and visit Bergamo and the old city with its walls because they are spectacular

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  @geo.m1639 · 2 years ago

  This is better than any tourism advert

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