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Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice Jurg Niehans there were more than aBetween the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city state's extraordinary rise through the life of Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107 1205), who ruled Venice as doge from 1192 until his death. The scion of a prosperous