Cape route, discovery of, 159 _Capi_ of the Ten, 110, 112, note Cappello, Bianca, 286, note Carlo Zeno, 130, 137 Carmagnola, his strategy, 142, 143 ---- capture and execution, 143, 144 Carraras, the, 118, 119, 136, 137 Cassiodorus, letter of, to the _Tribuni Maritimi_, 6 Castle of Love at Treviso, 72 Charlemagne defeats the Lombards, 11 Chioggia, 322 ---- relief of, 134 ---- war of, 131 Cobblers’ Guildhall, 308 “Cobden Madonna,” 93, 251 Colleoni, statue of, 280 Columns of St Mark and St Theodore, raising of, 53 Comines, Philippe de, his impressions of Venice, 160 Comnenian dynasty, 62 Constantinople, first capture of, by Venetians and Franks, 64 Constantinople, second capture and sack of, 67 Corn Office, 93 Cornaro, Caterina, 157, 159 Coronation oath, 55, 74 Council, closing of Great, 101 Cretan war, the, 181-183 Crichton, the Admirable, at Venice, 178 Crociferi, oratory of the, 298 Crown of Thorns pawned, 76 Crusade, fourth, 56-67 Crusades, attitude of Venetians towards, 38 Cyprus, acquisition of, 157, 158 D Da Canale writes the history of the Venetians in French, 86 ---- his description of Venice, 87 ---- his description of a ducal election festival, 90 Dalmatia, loss of, 127 ---- protectorate of, 29 ---- recovery of, 138 Dalmatian pirates, 21, 28 Dante at Venice, 117 Despots, Italian, 118 Dogado, the extent of, 2 Doge, election of first, 8 ---- his power and state, 8, 9 ---- limitation of powers of, 32, 33 Ducal Council, origin of, 33 Ducal Palace, 17, 241-251 Ducat of gold first coined, 95 E East, conquests of Venetians in the, 68 Eccelino da Romano, death of, and rejoicings at Venice, 86 Election of Doge, complicated machinery for, 88 English goods branded at Venice, 105 English knights at Venice, 128 ---- soldiers in Venetian service, their prowess, 136 Erasmus at Venice, 213 F Factions, aristocratic (Heraclia) and democratic (Malamocco), 9, 10, 12, 13 Factions, Caloprini and Orseoli, 28 ---- Nicolotti and Castellani, 305 Faliero, Marin, his house, 298 ---- his victory at Zara and embassy to Genoa, 122 Faliero, Marin, treason and execution of, 124, 126 Ferrara, defeat of Venetians at, 107 ---- siege of, 77 Festivals at Venice, 184, 185 Fisherman and St Mark, legend of, 120 Fleets, trading, 104 Florence appeals for a Venetian alliance, 141 Foscari, Francesco, his forward policy, 140, 146, 151 Foscari, Francesco, degradation and death, 149, 150 Foscari, Jacopo, his trial, 147, 148 ---- his exile and death, 149 Foscarini, Antonio, executed unjustly, 180 Frari, S. Maria Gloriosa dei, 281-284 French, defeat of, at Fornova, 162 Friuli, occupation of, 138 G Galileo at Padua, 178 Galley, value of cargo of, 104 ---- comparative size of, 105 Genoa, defeat of, 82, 85 ---- origin of war with, 81 Genoese crushed by Venetians off Lojero, 122 Genoese, defeat of Venetians by, 97 Gesuiti, the, 298 Ghetti, the, 310 Giudecca, island of, 309 Glass-workers, 212, 213