TY - BOOK AU - Ventura,Piero AU - Bettini,Sergio TI - Venice, birth of a city SN - 039921531X AV - DG676 .V46 1988 U1 - 945/.31 19 PY - 1988/// CY - New York PB - Putnam KW - Venice (Italy) KW - History KW - Pictorial works KW - Juvenile literature KW - sears N1 - Adaptation of: Venezia, nascita di una cittá / Sergio Bettini; Bulletin (Center for Children's books); New York Times; 6.9; Follett Library Book Co; 6.9; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; 5-8; Follett Library Resources N2 - Traces the history of the city built on islands in the Adriatic Sea from its establishment in A.D. 452 to the height of its political and economic power as a colonial empire and cultural center in the 1400's to its conquest by Napoleon in 1797 ER -