Dramatised documentary about Byzantium\u2019s relations with Venice, but also about the West\u2019s responsibilities for the first fall of Constantinople in 1204.
\nIrene, a young Greek girl, arrives in Venice just before the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to marry Lorenzo, a Venetian. Irene\u2019s correspondence with her uncle, Leo Philanthropinos, who lives in Romania, now under venetian and French rule, gives us the opportunity to examine some elements of Venice\u2019s history, and her peculiar relationship with Byzantium \u2013once as a province, later as an ally, and finally as a conqueror\u2013. The Venetians\u2019 views, which Irene transmits in her letters, provoke the angry replies of her uncle, who, seeing things fron his own standpoint, provides her with an alternative view and a more global perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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