Martin Luther, German Saviour

included that are less than useful; pictures of watermelons in Damascus and modern multi-faith visitors to the Tomb of the Virgin could readily have been replaced by more useful illustrations of things mentioned in the text but not shown (like Titian's "Presentation of the Virgin").One cannot doubt the role Islamic examples played in shaping the Venetian cityscape.That this book adds little to one's understanding of how they did so may merely reflect the impossibility of the project, but it is less convincing because it provides no solid sense that a full investigation of the printed and archival evidence of eastern contacts was undertaken.Nevertheless, the author succeeds in providing a number of intriguing presentations of the life of a mercantile community situated at the border between two very different cultures

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