Identifier: cu31924027778640 (find matches)
Title: History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h any point in the city by some one of the numerous canals, which take the place of streets. There are also narrow lanes along the canals, crossing them here and there by bridges, so one can wander about the town on foot doubtless believed it dangerous to permit her rival, Milan, toget possession of the Alpine passes through which her goods foundtheir way north. It may be, too, that she preferred to draw herfood supplies from the neighborhood instead of transporting themacross the Adriatic from her eastern possessions. Moreover, allthe Italian cities except Venice already controlled a larger orsmaller area of country about them. Medieval Towns — their Business and Buildings 451 About the year 1400 Venice reached the height of its pros-perity. It had a population of two hundred thousand, which wasvery large for those days. It had three hundred seagoing vesselswhich went to and fro in the Mediterranean, carrying wares fromthe East to the West. It had a war fleet of forty-five galleys,
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Fig. 116. St. Marks and the Doges Palace in Venice One sees the fajade of St. Marks to the left and that of the doges palacebeyond. The church, modeled after one in Constantinople, was planned beforethe First Crusade and is adorned with numerous colored marble columns andslabs brought from the East. The interior is covered with mosaics, some ofwhich go back to the twelfth and the thirteenth century. The fajade is alsoadorned with brilliant mosaics. St. Marks is unique among the buildings ofthe world in respect to its unparalleled richness of material and decoration.The doges palace contained the government offices and the magnificent hallsin which the senate and Council of Ten met. The palace was begun about1300, and the fa9ade we see in the picture was commenced about a hundredyears later. It shows the influence of the Gothic style, which penetratedinto northern Italy manned by eleven thousand marines ready to fight the battles ofthe republic. But when Constantinople fell into the ha

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