By Frances Leader https://steemit.com/history/@francesleader/the-venetians-roman-empire-to-the-british-empire Venice called itself the Serene Republic, but its sinister institutions provide an unmatched continuity of the most hideous oligarchical rule for more than 15 centuries, from the Roman Empire, through the British Empire until the present. Venice was the centre of efforts to destroy the advanced European civilization of the 11th … Continue reading The Black Nobility of Venice