SALVE · VENETIA [Illustration: THE SALUTE] SALVE · VENETIA GLEANINGS FROM VENETIAN HISTORY BY FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD _WITH 225 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH PENNELL_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1906 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1905. Reprinted January, 1906. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS PAGE SALVE VENETIA! 1 I. THE BEGINNINGS 9 II. THE LITTLE GOLDEN AGE 24 III. THE REPUBLIC OF SAINT MARK 35 IV. VENICE UNDER THE FAMILIES OF PARTECIPAZIO, CANDIANO, AND ORSEOLO 55 V. VENICE AND THE FIRST CRUSADES 93 VI. VENICE AND CONSTANTINOPLE 124 VII. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY IN VENICE 160 VIII. ON MANNERS AND CERTAIN CUSTOMS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 257 IX. THE FEAST OF THE MARIES 278 X. THE DOGES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 288 XI. CONSPIRACY OF MARINO FALIERO 309 XII. THE SUCCESSORS OF MARINO FALIERO 342 XIII. CARLO ZENO 353 XIV. THE WAR OF CHIOGGIA 369 XV. VENICE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 416 THE DOGES OF VENICE 495 TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL DATES IN VENETIAN HISTORY 499 BOOKS CONSULTED 501 INDEX 507 ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES The Salute _Frontispiece_ Evening in the Lagoon _To face page_ 4 Midnight, the Lagoon 6