Identifier: italyfromdanteto1919cott (find matches)
Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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, the struggles with the Turks thatoccupied her so fully during these last 70 years of the century-had but little direct influence on the general political historyof the period, and therefore need not here delay us long. Ofcourse they are of the very greatest importance, and will befully related in the proper place, for not only did the heroicresistance of the Venetians perhaps save Christendom, but inorder to understand Venice aright at this era we must notstudy her merely at home. We must remember that, althoughher Italian mainland poHcy had ended in something like igno-miny, she was a very different Venice in the East. She wasstill great—^not by reason only of the art treasures of the Cityof the Ivagunes, but also by reason of the glories of the GreaterVenice of her overseas empire. The story of the gradual butsteady decline of this empire during the Cinquecento—a decUneonly temporarily delayed by the great victory of I^epanto in1571—^will be told in a subsequent chapter. 448
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50. Pope Jui,it:s II 448

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