Preface
_ ‘This noble citie doth in a manner
chalenge this at my hands, that
I should describe her ... the
fairest Lady, yet the richest Paragon,
and Queene of Christendome.‘
1900
AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS GIFT OF VIVID
HISTORIC NARRATION WHICH WAS
THE DELIGHT OF MY CHILDHOOD,
I INSCRIBE THIS ROMANCE TO THE
MEMORY OF MY DEAR FATHER.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I desire gratefully to acknowledge my indebtedness to many faithful, loving and able students of Venetian lore, without whose books my own presentation of Venice in the sixteenth century would have been impossible. Mr. Ruskin‘s name must always come first among the prophets of this City of the Sea, but among others from whom I have gathered side-lights I have found quite indispensable Mr. Horatio F. Brown‘s "Venice； An Historical Sketch of the Republic," "Venetian Studies," and "Life on the Lagoons"； Mr. Hare‘s suggestive little volume of "Venice"； M. Leon Galibert‘s "Histoire de la Republique de Venise"； a

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