A Once Powerful Italian City Still Has Glimpses of Its Storied Past

Dec 26 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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The ossified museum city is a familiar vision; Italy contains several of these sepulchers; and no discredit to them but if you'd like a wealth of history in a living place, try Genoa, a comprehensively engrossing destination overshadowed by many others.

Genoa carried on a centuries-long mercantile rivalry with Venice and yet has certainly lost the game in the larger historical imagination. There are dozens of popular histories on Venice but basically one on Genoa; Venice...

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