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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
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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.
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