If, as the team believes, this boat served the Venetian empire, then the ill-fated cocha would have sunk during Venice’s golden era—the period when Marco Polo recorded his adventures.

The sinking city has a strong history of its own, as the Venetian Empire was once a powerful force in Europe. Today, it is quite touristy but is also quite unique. We visited both cities on our ...

Through this off-campus program, students will immerse themselves in the art and architecture of the Venetian Empire, primarily in Venice but also exploring Verona and Padua, while reflecting on the ...

That location has made it a garrison town, one given massive, state-of-the-art Venetian-Empire-style fortifications in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and an imposing barracks, designed by the ...

My first book, Venice’s Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean (Cornell University Press in 2018) focuses on the early modern Venetian empire, which extended ...