[Illustration: THE ANGELS OF THE SALUTE] SALVE · VENETIA GLEANINGS FROM VENETIAN HISTORY BY FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD _WITH 225 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH PENNELL_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II 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 I. THE ARISTOCRATIC MAGISTRACIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1 II. GLEANING FROM VENETIAN CRIMINAL HISTORY 51 III. VENETIAN DIPLOMACY 77 IV. THE ARSENAL, THE GLASS-WORKS, AND THE LACE-MAKERS 95 V. CONCERNING SOME LADIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 117 VI. A FEW PAINTERS, MEN OF LETTERS, AND SCHOLARS 132 VII. THE TRIUMPHANT CITY 168 VIII. THE HOSE CLUB--VENETIAN LEGENDS 189 IX. THE DECADENCE 207 X. THE LAST HOMES--THE LAST GREAT LADIES 232 XI. THE LAST CARNIVALS--THE LAST FAIRS--THE LAST FEASTS 266 XII. THE LAST MAGISTRATES 288 XIII. THE LAST SBIRRI 310 XIV. THE LAST DOGES 334 XV. THE LAST SOLDIERS 348 XVI. THE LAST DIPLOMATISTS 361 XVII. THE LAST HOUR 380 XVIII. CONCLUSION 412 THE DOGES OF VENICE 421 TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL DATES IN VENETIAN HISTORY 425 INDEX 433 ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES The Angels of the Salute _Frontispiece_ The Last Rays, St. Mark’s _To face page_ 35 Palazzo Ressonico ” 72