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Venice, Genoa’s great rival, might carp that she was “a city of sea without fish, . . . men without faith, and women without shame,” but Genoese grandeur was impervious to such insults. In Caffa, Genoa built a monument to itself. The port’s sunlit piazzas and fine stone houses, the lovely women who walked along its quays with the brocades of Persia on their backs and the perfumes of Arabia gracing their skin, were monuments to Genoese wealth, virtue, piety, and imperial glory.
As an Italian poet of the time noted,
And so many are the Genoese
And so spread . . . throughout the world
That wherever one goes and stays
He makes another Genoa there.
Caffa’s meteoric rise to
- Book Name:
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time pdf
- Author Name
John Kelly
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2005
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