Bjornlie (2013) Cassiodorus
Bjornlie, Michael Shane. Politics and tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople : a study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554. Cambridge Cambridge university press, 2013
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Lagoon settlements in the early Middle Ages
The lagoon was settled in Antiquity, and in the 600s, there were numerous known towns, and several important cities. Venice, however, was not one of them.