Genoa, 'La Superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower - Softcover

Walton, Dr Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849045127 ISBN 13: 9781849045124

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Genoa is Italy's unknown giant - It rose out of nowhere to become a superpower in the Middle Ages, locking horns with Venice for mastery of the Mediterranean's trading links to the East. Even though its time on the top table was limited, its decline was long and influential

About this title

About the Author

Nicholas Walton is a journalist who spent fourteen years at the BBC, covering foreign news at the World Service, working as Sarajevo and Warsaw correspondent, and making programmes from Sierra Leone to Georgia. After four years with the European Council on Foreign Relations he moved to his wife's hometown of Genoa, and now lives in Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849045127
• ISBN 13: 9781849045124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256