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APPEKDIX.
X, FOUNDATION OF VENICE.
I find the chi-oniders agree in fixing the year 421, if any:
the following sentence from De Monaci may perhaps interest the
reader.
" God, who punishes the sins of men by war sorrows, and
whose ways are past finding out, willing both to save the innocent
blood, and that a great power, beneficial to the whole world,
should arise in a spot strange beyond belief, moved the chief
men of the cities of the Venetian province (which from the
border of Pannonia, extended as far as the Adda, a river of Lom-
bardy), both in memory of past, and in dread of future distress,
to establish states upon the nearer islands of the inner gulphs of
the Adriatic, to which, in the last necessity, they might retreat
for refuge. And first G-alienus de Fontana, Simon de Glauco-
nibus, and Antonius Calvus, or, as others have it,. Adalburtus
Falerius, Thomas Candiano, Comes Daulus, Consuls of Padua,
by the command of their King and the desire of the citizens,
laid the foundations of the new commonwealth, under good
auspices, on the island of the Rialto, the highest and nearest to
the mouth of the deep river now called the Brenta, in the year
of Our Lord, as many writers assure us, four hundred and twenty-
one, on the 25th day of March." *
It is matter also of very great satisfaction to know that Venice
was founded by good Christians: "La qual citade e^tada hedifi-
cada da veri e boni Christiani:" which information I found in
*Ed. Venetis, 1758, Lib. I.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000417 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPEKDIX. X, FOUNDATION OF VENICE. I find the chi-oniders agree in fixing the year 421, if any: the following sentence from De Monaci may perhaps interest the reader. " God, who punishes the sins of men by war sorrows, and whose ways are past finding out, willing both to save the innocent blood, and that a great power, beneficial to the whole world, should arise in a spot strange beyond belief, moved the chief men of the cities of the Venetian province (which from the border of Pannonia, extended as far as the Adda, a river of Lom- bardy), both in memory of past, and in dread of future distress, to establish states upon the nearer islands of the inner gulphs of the Adriatic, to which, in the last necessity, they might retreat for refuge. And first G-alienus de Fontana, Simon de Glauco- nibus, and Antonius Calvus, or, as others have it,. Adalburtus Falerius, Thomas Candiano, Comes Daulus, Consuls of Padua, by the command of their King and the desire of the citizens, laid the foundations of the new commonwealth, under good auspices, on the island of the Rialto, the highest and nearest to the mouth of the deep river now called the Brenta, in the year of Our Lord, as many writers assure us, four hundred and twenty- one, on the 25th day of March." * It is matter also of very great satisfaction to know that Venice was founded by good Christians: "La qual citade e^tada hedifi- cada da veri e boni Christiani:" which information I found in *Ed. Venetis, 1758, Lib. I. |
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