This is a companion site to History Walks Venice and the Venetian Stories podcast and newsletter, also by René Seindal.
Here you can find e-books and downloads based on collections of articles from the History Walks site, or on the transcripts of series of podcast episodes. Over there, it is scattered. Here it is collected.
Free e-books and downloads
An unreasonably short history of Venice
The average “A History of Venice” book is a tome of three or four hundred pages, and many are twice that.
The Unreasonably short history of Venice is the history of Venice as succinctly as possible, to make it more accessible.
Download as PDF, EPUB3, read online or listen to the podcast.
Latest news from Venice, 1576
Rocco Benedetti, a Venetian notary, lived through the plague epidemic in Venice of 1575–1577, and he described it in detail in a letter.
I have translated this letter from the original Venetian, and added explanations and comments.
It is a booklet of 75 pages.
There’s a lot more about the History of Venice on the History Walks Venice website, and on the Venetian Stories podcast and newsletter.