Note 13 — Chapter I
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1 Appendix 1, “Foundation of Venice.”
2 Appendix 2, “Power of the Doges.”
3 Sismondi, Hist. des Rép. Ital., vol. i. ch. v.
4 Appendix 3, “Serrar del Consiglio.”
5 “Ha saputo trovar modo che non uno, non pochi, non molti, signoreggiano, ma molti buoni, pochi migliori, e insiememente, un ottimo solo.” (Sansovino.) Ah, well done, Venice! Wisdom this, indeed.
6 Daru, liv. xii. ch. xii.
7 Daru, liv. xvi. cap. xx. We owe to this historian the discovery of the statutes of the tribunal and date of its establishment.
8 Ominously signified by their humiliation to the Papal power (as before to the Turkish) in 1509, and their abandonment of their right of appointing the clergy of their territories.
9 The senate voted the abdication of their authority by a majority of 512 to 14. (Alison, ch. xxiii.)
10 By directing the arms of the Crusaders against a Christian prince. (Daru, liv. iv. ch. iv. viii.)
11 Appendix 4, “San Pietro di Castello.”
12 Tomaso Mocenigo, above named, § V.
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“In that temple porch, (The brass is gone, the porphyry remains,) Did Barbarossa fling his mantle off, And kneeling, on his neck receive the foot Of the proud Pontiff—thus at last consoled For flight, disguise, and many an aguish shake On his stone pillow.”
I need hardly say whence the lines are taken: Rogers’ “Italy” has, I believe, now a place in the best beloved compartment of all libraries, and will never be removed from it. There is more true expression of the spirit of Venice in the passages devoted to her in that poem, than in all else that has been written of her.
14 At least, such success as they had. Vide Appendix 5, “The Papal Power in Venice.”
15 The inconsiderable fortifications of the arsenal are no exception to this statement, as far as it regards the city itself. They are little more than a semblance of precaution against the attack of a foreign enemy.
16 Mémoires de Commynes, liv. vii. ch. xviii.
17 Appendix 6, “Renaissance Ornaments.”
18 Appendix 7, “Varieties of the Orders.”
19 The reader will find the weak points of Byzantine architecture shrewdly seized, and exquisitely sketched, in the opening chapter of the most delightful book of travels I ever opened,—Curzon’s “Monasteries of the Levant.”
20 Appendix 8, “The Northern Energy.”
21 Appendix 9, “Wooden Churches of the North.”
22 Appendix 10, “Church of Alexandria.”
23 Appendix 11, “Renaissance Landscape.”
24 Selvatico, “Architettura di Venezia,” p. 147.
25 Selvatico, p. 221.
26 The older work is of Istrian stone also, but of different quality.
27 Appendix 12, “Romanist Modern Art.”