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The great industrial boatyard of Venice


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Macfarlane, Alan 

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The arsenal or boat building centre of Venice in the middle ages was one of the greatest industrial centres in the world. Through a mechanical division of work and high precision it turned out ships very rapidly and inspired Dante’s vision of ‘Inferno’. Explained by Alan Macfarlane.

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