Art -- Italy -- Venice; Venice (Italy) -- Description and travel; Venice (Italy) -- History
S. Polo, 308
S. Rocco, Church of, 286
---- Scuola di, 285
---- story of, 284
S. Salvatore, 293
S. Sebastiano, 306
S. Stefano, 295
St Tarasius, rape of the body of, 31
St Theodore, Church of, 7
S. Trovaso, 309
S. Vio, 296
S. Vitale, 296
S. Zaccaria, 286
S. Zanipolo, 276-279
---- legend of foundation of, 78
S. Zulian, 275
Salinguerra, his memorial, 321
Salute, the, 297
Sarpi, Paolo, death of, 178
Scalas, the, 118, 119, 136
Schiavoni, Riva degli, 290
---- S. Giorgio degli, 287
Sculpture, Venetian, 187-195
Seminario, the, 297
Senate, origin of, 33
---- the, 102
Shrine at Calle Barbaro, 296
Signory, the, 102
Slave trade at Venice, 12, 21, 26
Spanish plot, 179
Steno, Michel, his insult to Faliero, 124
Street nomenclature, 216
T
Tagliapietra, Contessa, legend of, 296
Ten, attack on the, 180
---- Council of the, 109-111
Titian’s house, site of, 315
Torcello, 5, 318
---- final migration to, 4
Trading privileges, extension of, 36, 40, 42
Tribunes, their first election, 6
_Tribuni majores_, election of, 7
Turkish conquests, 173
---- terror at Venice, 152, 154, 155
---- capture of Constantinople, 151, 153
Tyre, capture of, 43
V
Venetian fleet, destruction of, by Genoese, 130
Venetian settlements, the earliest, 4
Venetians defeated by Genoese off Pera, 122
---- defeated by Turks off Sapienza, 163
---- routed by Genoese off Sapienza, 124
---- their master passions, 68
Venice, excommunication of, 106, 156, 167, 176
---- her fortitude under disaster, 124, 130
---- her popularity on the mainland, 120, 146
---- invites the King of France to Italy, 156
---- occupied by the French, 186
Verona, occupation of, 137
Visconti, Galeozzo, 136
---- Filippo, 140
W
Wedding of the Adriatic, 29, 50, 53
Z
Zara, capture of, by Crusaders, 61
---- rebellion of, 117, 121
Zattere, fondamenta delle, 309
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Palazza Ducale=> Palazzo Ducale {pg xi}
Vie de St Francois=> Vie de St François {pg 73}
who rode to seek aventure=> who rode to seek adventure {pg 92}
answer Ghisello=> answered Ghisello {pg 125}
envoys empty away=> envoys away empty {pg 154}
reign that the ast=> reign that the last {pg 155}
The chief atttraction=> The chief attraction {pg 255}
Cornara, Caterina, 157, 159=> Cornaro, Caterina, 157, 159 {pg 328}
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Appendix II. An exhaustive bibliography will be found in “The
Cambridge Modern History,” Vol. I.
[2] Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Sinigaglia and Ancona.
[3] A method of disposing of a political enemy, so common in Italy, in
the middle ages, that it was expressed by a word _abbacinare_, from the
_bacino_ or red hot basin of brass fixed before the eyes of the victim.
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