>Handra ("Italian Renaissance" Safelstran trading emporium sited in >the
>middle of a swamp) has many of the *physical* characteristics of >Venice,
I think more probable Pisa or Florence (the former was economically
stronger, the latter was culturally richer); swamps were everywhere, almost,
in Italy until Mussolini time.
>IMO, though I know Peter was referring to a far broader swathe of
>characteristics than that. Maybe Pasos is Genoa and Nolos is >Venice? :-)
Genoa is no ISLAND, but Venice is.
>>Ralios would best be a mixture of Italy (feuding citystates) and
>>Germany (feuding religious disputes).
>Mix in feuding Ancient city-states (after all, the great Renaissance
>thinkers thought they were living in a "re-birth" of the Ancient >world,
>Greek and Roman) for more fun. The King of Seshnela is then >the "Great
>King" on the edge of our lands, snaffling up some >previously independent
>states
>from time to time in his campaigns of conquest.
Not that simple: Renaissance was different, subsequential but different,
from the golden age of italian mariner republics (Pisa, Venice, Amalfi and
Genoa): it took place two centuries after their ventures and much more in
Rome, Florence and Milan than in seaports.
Also I think that, historically referring to the RW, given this be a correct
exercise for Glorantha-scholars, we should not forget the cultural,
political, economical and religious role of the Lowlands in Europe late
middle ages or of the Helvetic Confederation: see Charles the Bold, Duchy of
Burgundy and his battles against Swiss elite Pikemen.
Ciao
Gian
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