Italian Histories Season 1: Venice, episode 2 Last episode, we explored the origins of the people who populated the Veneto region and its lagoons, and found that a Venetian identity extended back hundreds of years before the fall of the Roman Empire. We also bumped into an important question I’d like to explore more fully…

Italian Histories Season 1: Venice, episode 1 Venetian history begins during the tumultuous end of the Western Roman Empire and I believe it will be helpful to go over the period with some broad strokes before circling back for a more detailed look. The splitting of the Roman empire was itself precipitated by the start…