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Stones Of Venice - 9781544682020
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Stones Of Venice - 9781544682020
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The state of Venice existed Thirteen Hundred and Seventy-six years, from the first establishment of a consular government on the island of the Rialto, [Footnote: Appendix I., "Foundations of Venice."] to the moment when the General-in-chief of the French army of Italy pronounced the Venetian republic a thing of the past. Of this period, Two Hundred and Seventy-six years [Footnote: Appendix II., "Power of the Doges."] were passed in a nominal subjection to the cities of old Venetia, especially to Padua, and in an agitated form of democracy, of which the executive appears to have been entrusted to tribunes, [Footnote: Sismondi, Hist. des R?p. Ital., vol. i. ch. v.] chosen, one by the inhabitants of each of the principal islands. For six hundred years, [Footnote: Appendix III., "Serrar del Consiglio.
Author: John Ruskin |
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
Publication Date: Mar 26, 2017 |
Number of Pages: 208 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1544682026 |
ISBN-13: 9781544682020 |