"The vessels that bore the bishops of Soissons and Troyes, the _Paradise_ and the _Pilgrim_, were the first which grappled with the Towers of Constantinople [April, 1204].... The bishops of Soissons and of Troyes would have placed the blind old Doge Dandolo on the imperial throne; his election was opposed by the Venetians.... But probably the wise patriotism of Dandolo himself, and his knowledge of the Venetian mind, would make him acquiesce in the loss of an honour so dangerous to his country.... Venice might have sunk to an outpost, as it were, of the Eastern Empire."--Milman's _Hist. of Lat. Christianity_, v. 350, 353, 354.] [393] {338} [Hobhouse's version (see _Hist. Notes_, No. vi.) of the war of Chioggia is not borne out by modern research. For example, the long speech which Chinazzo attributes to the Genoese admiral, Pietro Doria, is probably mythical. The actual menace of the "bitting and bridling the horses of St. Mark" is assigned by other historians to Francesco Carrara. Doria was not killed by a stone bullet from the cannon named The Trevisara, but by the fall of the Campanile in Chioggia, which had been struck by the bullet. (_Venice, an Historical Sketch of the Republic_, by Horatio F. Brown, 1893, pp. 225-234.)] [lp] ----_into whence she rose_.--[Editions 1818-1891.] [394] [Compare the opening lines of Byron's _Ode on Venice_-- "Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!" Shelley, too, in his _Lines written among the Euganean Hills_, bewailed the approaching doom of the "sea-girt city." But threatened cities, like threatened men, live long, and since its annexation to Italy, in 1866, a revival of trade and the re-establishment of the arsenal have brought back a certain measure of prosperity.] [lq] {339} _Even in Destruction's heart_----.--[MS. M.] [395] That is, the Lion of St. Mark, the standard of the republic, which is the origin of the word Pantaloon--Piantaleone, Pantaleon, Pantaloon.