Note 127 — Chapter VII · THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Benedictus Carol. VIII. in Eccard, Scriptores, ii. col. 1597, 1601, 1621. In the Chron. Venetum, Murat. xxiv. col. 26, the political virtues of the Venetians are enumerated: ‘bontà, innocenza, zelo di carità, pietà, misericordia.’