Couriers, State, 84-86
Courtesans, 130-131
Crema, 382, 383, 387
Crete, 225-227, 349
Criminal history, Venetian, 51-66
Cristofoli, Cristofolo de’, 311-321, 331
Cromwell, Oliver, 175
Crusades, the, 4
Cyprus, 170, 175
Dalmatia, 230, 386, 417, 418
Dandolo, Andrea, 312
Vincenzo, 60
_See also under_ Doges
Dante, 36, 95, 205
Danube, the, 349
Daru, 11, 12, 105
Deserto, island of, 134
Didot, M., 151, 152, 153
Diplomacy, Venetian, 77-94
Directory, French, 377, 378, 381, 383, 388, 396, 406
Doge, the, palace of, 22, 97
restrictions on freedom of, 43-50
Doges--
Contarini, Andrea, 45, 226
Dandolo, Enrico, 45, 174, 226
Leonardo, 209
Donà, Leonardo, 12, 166
Erizzo, Francesco, 49, 226
Foscari, Francesco, 44
Foscarini, Marco, 254, 256, 334-335
Giustiniani, Marcantonio, 49
Gradenigo, Bartolommeo, 84
Grimani, Antonio, 49
Gritti, Andrea, 38, 49, 116
Manin, Ludovico, 347, 359, 394
Mastropiero, Orio, 268
Mocenigo, Aloise (Luigi), 49, 172, 186
Aloise IV., 335-340
Giovanni, 45
Moro, Cristoforo, 46
Morosini, Francesco, 49, 107, 227-230
Renier, Paolo, 340-343
Steno, Michel, 46, 190
Valier, Silvestro, 230
Dogess, the, in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 47
Dolfin, Daniele, 372, 363
Don John of Austria, 171
Doná, Francesco, 398, 404
Leonardo. _See under_ Doges
Niccolò, 12
Pietro, 408, 409, 410, 411
Dress and fashion, 34-38, 128, 242-245, 249
Drownings, official, 18-19
‘Ducal promise,’ 220
Ducat, gold, 92
Ducks, tribute of, 48-50
Edward III. of England, 84
Egina, 230
Elections of Doge, cost of, 345-346
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 86
Emo, Alvise, 295
Angelo, 356-360
England, 19, 27, 83, 84, 86, 91, 93, 165, 175, 214, 215, 219, 263, 356, 374, 377, 398
Venetian ambassadors to, 83-93
Erasmus, 152
Erizzo, Francesco. _See under_ Doges
‘Espousal of the Sea,’ ceremony of the, 270-275
Euganean Hills, 134
Executives against Blasphemy, 24
of the Ten, 14
Exhibition, first Universal Industrial, 268
Fair of the Ascension, 266-277
Falier, Ludovico, 86-93
Fata Morgana, 134
Father Inquisitor, 24, 28
Faust, Johann, 149
Feasts of--
Ascension, 267, 337
Candlemas, 210
Saint Jerome, 337
Saint Justina, 172
Saint Mark, 337
Saint Stephen, 337
Saint Vitus, 337
Feliciani, Lorenza, 316
Feltre, 149
Ferdinand of Aragon, 198
Ferrara, 221, 389, 396
Filiasi, 262
Florence, 110, 116
Florentines, 4
Fornaretto, legend of, 65-66
Forts of--
San Nicola, 395
Sant’ Andrea, 396
Foscari, Francesco. _See under_ Doges
Foscarini, Antonio, 19, 214-220
Marco. _See under_ Doges
Foscolo, Ugo, 261
Foundling Asylum, 8
France, 42, 74, 79, 100, 106, 108, 116, 165, 175, 199, 224, 242, 250, 288, 311, 352, 356, 359, 362-379, 360-417
Francis I. of France, 74, 75, 137
Franco, Veronica, 131, 182-183
Frangipane, Cristoforo, 66-76
Franklin, Benjamin, 362
Frederick III., Emperor, 105-106
Frederick IV. of Denmark, 245
Freemasonry, 311-316
French Revolution, 234, 340, 347, 363-379, 381
Friuli, 67, 386
Fugger family of Augsburg, 181-182
Fulin, Signor, 14, 17, 19
Fusina, 401
Gabrieli, Angelo Maria, 416
Galilei, Galileo, 164-167
letter of, quoted, 166-167
Gambara, the, 321-322
Count Alemanno, 321-333
Countess Giulia, 324
Francesco, 331, 332
Gambling establishments, 194, 201, 245-246
Garda, Lake of, 36
Genoa, 4, 98, 379
Germany, 74, 165
Geronimo, Count, 57-59
Gibraltar, Straits of, 358
Ginevra, Countess, 57-60
Giovanna of Austria, Archduchess, 126
Giraldi, 65
Giudecca, the, 202, 277
Giustiniani, Angelo Giacomo, 404
Leonardo, 398
Marcantonio. _See under_ Doges
Onofrio, 172
Glass-works, 98-106
Gloucester, Duke of, 263
Godi, Paolo, 103
‘Golden Book,’ the, 5, 7, 100, 144, 294, 378, 416
Goldoni, 232, 236-238, 241, 247, 270, 277-280, 302, 304, 305-309, 355
Gondolas, 38-42, 201
Gonzaga, Carlo, 224, 225
Ferrante, 224
Princess, 252-254
Goritz, 70, 392
Goro, 368
Government of Venice--
aristocratic, 2
provisional, 411
Gradenigo, Bartolommeo. _See under_ Doges
Giuseppe, 295
Grand Canal, 336
Gratarol, 341
Gratz, 398
Great Council, the, 5, 7, 8-10, 44, 45, 47, 48, 78, 120, 141, 191, 222, 230, 231, 243, 288-296, 341, 371, 384, 401, 405, 410, 411, 415
Greek archipelago, 169
Greeks, 114, 119
Grimani, Antonio. _See under_ Doges
Cardinal Domenico, 319
Gritti, Andrea. _See under_ Doges
Luca, 195
Guttenberg, Johannes, 149
_Halimedia Opuntia_, 108
Hall of the Great Council, 179, 195
burning of, 98, 155
Hapsburg family, 169
Henin, M., 368-373
Henry III. of France, 42, 98, 175-186, 251
Henry IV. of France, 208, 210, 214, 378
Henry VIII. of England, 86-92
Heretics, 25, 28
High Chancellor, 82
Hoffmann, 267
Holy Inquisition, 11, 23
Holy Office, 23-34, 146
diagram of Court of, 25
Holy Roman Empire, 12, 199
Homer, 341
‘Hose Club,’ the, 42, 189-201, 278
Hospice of Saint Ursula, 277
Hôtel Danieli, 72
Hungary, 199, 349
Illasi, 57
Castle of, 60
Inquisition, the, 11, 23
Inquisitors--
of Council of Ten, 13, 14
of Holy Office, 11, 23-34, 281
of State, 11-22
Ionian Islands, 417
Istria, 67, 417
Ivan Strashny, the Terrible, 175
Ivry, battle of, 378
James I. of England, 215
Japanese envoys in Venice, 186-187
Jefferson, Thomas, 362
Jews, 111, 114
Joseph II., Emperor, 107
Joyeuse, Cardinal de, 210
Judenburg, 393
Juliet, 68
Junot, Marshal, 393, 394, 398
Jupiter’s moons, 167
Knights of the Golden Stole, 82-83, 127, 163
Knights of Malta, 225
Kugler, Franz, 118
La Forét, 215
Lace-making, 105-110
Ladies, Venetian, of eighteenth century, 234-246
of sixteenth century, 117-131
Landrieux, General, 389, 392
Lange, Apollonia von, 68-76
Laugier, 105
Laws, sumptuary, 34-43, 201
Venetian Code, 160, 222, 223
Legends, Venetian, 201-206
Legnago, fort of, 385, 387
Leoben, treaty of, 396, 399
Lepanto, battle of, 49, 171-175
Lezze, Antonio da, 3
Lido, the, 176, 178, 180, 229, 275, 392, 395, 399, 405
Lion of Saint Mark, 415
Lions of marble from Pentelicus, 228
‘Lions’ Mouths’ (boxes), 222
Liptay, General, 383
Lizzafusina, 76
Lodron, Count of, 68
Lombards, 119
Lombardy, 320, 382, 417
Longhi, 232, 233
Louis XII., 162, 198
Louis XIV., 106, 107, 108, 226, 291
Louis XVI., 359, 364, 366, 372
Louis XVII., 375, 376
Louis XVIII., 375, 376, 378
Luca, chief of the Niccolotti, 179
Luther, Martin, 132
Maffei, Andrea, 265
Marchese Scipione, 391
Magistracies of Venice--
aristocratic, 1-11
in eighteenth century, 299
Malamani, V., 316
Malta, 349, 359, 367
Manin, Ludovico. _See under_ Doges
Mantua, 224-225, 384, 387, 388, 399, 417
Duke of, 176, 399
Manutius, Aldus, 146, 149-154
Paulus, 154, 160
Marcello, Benedetto, 280
Lorenzo, 226
Maria Teresa, Empress, 343
Marin, Valentin, 411
Martel, Charles, 175
Martini, Signor, 117
Mary, Queen of Scots, 93
Masséna, Marshal, 384
Mastropiero, Orio. _See under_ Doges
Maurice of Nassau, 165
Maximilian, Emperor, 66, 67, 68, 71, 198
Mayne, Christopher, 164
Medici, Cardinal Ferdinando dei, 124, 127, 165
Cosmo dei, 124, 126
Francesco dei, 124-127
Isabella dei, 58, 124
Maria de’, 214
Mediterranean, the, 169, 175, 357
Men and women of letters, 430
Merceria, the, 242
Messina, 170
Mestre, 111
Michelangelo, 116
Michiel, Giustina Renier, 234, 242, 254-265, 272, 337, 338, 342, 417-420
Marcantonio, 256
Milan, 75, 76, 208, 381, 382, 389
Duke of, 194
Ministry of Public Worship, European, 23
Mocenigo, Alvise, 404
Giovanni, 27, 28
Sebastiano, 343
_See also under_ Doges
Modena, 379, 389, 417
Molière, 255
Molinari, Carlo, 327, 328, 331
Molmenti, 26, 35, 48, 57-65, 132, 283
Monasteries of--
the Carità, 197
Saint George, 22
San Geremia, 368
Money-lenders, 111-115
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 217
Montecchi, Romeo, 68
Montesquieu, 175, 319-320
Monti Vincenzo, 256
Moorish conquest, 175
Morelli, 262
Moro, Cristoforo. _See under_ Doges
Zuan, 195, 196
Morosini, Alvise, 200
Angelo, 195
Francesco. _See under_ Doges
Niccolò, 409
Tommaso, 226
Mummeries, 198-200, 278
Murano--
Councils, 102
glass-makers, 100-106, 177-178
Golden Book, 102
heraldic arms, 102
podestà, 102
Muratori, 196
Musæus, 152
Museo Civico, 106
Correr, 311
Mustapha, 170, 171
Mutinelli, 345, 346, 352
Muzina (prison), 19
Nani, Giacomo, 386, 387
Naples, 379
King of, 350, 387
Napoleon, 175, 256, 257, 258-260, 262, 332, 352, 373, 377, 379, 380-417
Narenta, pirates of, 169
Nassau, Prince of, 387
National Assembly of France, 363, 364
Navagero, Andrea, 150, 151, 162
Nevers, Duke of, 176, 224
Niccolini, tragedian, 262, 263
Niccolotti and Castellani, 179
Nicolosi, Angelo, 12
Nicosia, 170
Nievo, Ippolito, 391
Noailles, Duc de, 226
Nobles, College of, 292
Oglio, the, 396
Opera, first, in Italy, 180
Orford, Lord, 131
Orsini, Paolo Giordano, 58, 124
Virginio, 58-59
Osella, coining of the, 49-50, 342, 347
‘Oselle,’ gift of the, 48, 337
Osopo, 67, 71, 389
_Othello_, 64, 65
Oxford University, 88
Pace, island of, 134
Padua, 152, 172, 349, 398
Bishop of, 162, 163
University of, 162-167, 349
Painters, 132-146, 430-431
College of, 146
Paisiello, 287
Palace (Palazzo)--
Mocenigo, 217
Renier, 298
Zen, 298
Palazzo (Palace)--
Cappello, 176
Foscari, 180, 181, 183
Michiel, 257
Morosini, 201
Palladio, 143, 178, 197
‘Pallone,’ game of, 198
Palma, fortress of, 323, 389
Papal Court, 10
Parenzo, 49
Paris, 242
Parma, 362, 379, 382
Duke of, 329
Parthenon, the, 227
Pasqualigo, Cosimo, 22
Passarowitz, treaty of, 349
Passionei, Cardinal, 335
Patras, 227
Pawnbrokers, 111-115
Peloponnesus, the, 227-230, 348, 349
Pepoli, Alessandro, 287
Pesaro, Niccolò da, 22
Peschiera, fort of, 351, 383
Peter the Great, Czar, 230
Petrarch, 146, 155
Philip II. of Spain, 170, 175, 208
Philippe de Valois, 84
Piave, the, 178
Piazza of Saint Mark, 119
Piazzetta, the, 270, 283, 324, 336
columns of, 55
Piedmont, 367, 375
Pigeons of Saint Mark’s, 188
Pio, Prince, 149, 154
Piombi, the, 333, 398, 405, 408
Pirates, 169, 358
Pisa, 165
Pisani, Alvise, 366, 372, 375, 376
Vittor, 3, 174, 356
Pizzamano, Domenico, 395, 396, 416, 417
Plague, 144, 152, 225
Plato’s _Dialogues_, 341
Plautus, 196
Plays, 196-197, 283
Po, the, 178, 380, 396
Poe, Edgar, 267
Poitiers, 175
Poland, 362
Political prisoners, 66-76
Ponte, Antonio da, 116
Ponte. _See also_ Bridge
dell’Angelo, 202, 317, 331
del Carmine, 179
di Donna Onesta, 131
della Paglia, 70
Storto, 121
Popes--
Alexander III., 267, 270
Alexander VI., 153
Alexander VIII., 228
Clement VII., 91
Clement VIII., 208
Gregory XIII., 238
Innocent VIII., 209
Julius II., 198
Paul III., 209
Paul V., 208, 209
Pius II., 46
Pius VII., 379
Sixtus V., 78, 81, 186
Pordenone, 67, 68, 98
Portugal, 356, 358
Pozzi, the, 21, 333, 405, 408
Prata, Count, 278, 279
Printing, invention of, 149
Prisons and prisoners--
in eighteenth century, 333
in sixteenth century, 19-22
Priuli, Zacaria, 195
Procession of Corpus Domini, 73
Provisional Government of Venice, 411
Provveditori, 34-43, 129, 186, 201, 235, 282, 296, 354
Psalms of David, 148
Ptolemy, 167
Quirini, the, 53
Aloise, 376
Angelo, 296, 297, 372
Rabelais, 132
Raphael, 132
Record Office, English, 19
‘Red Inquisitor,’ 14
Reggio d’Emilia, 389
Renascence, the, 119
Renier, Bernardino, 257, 258
Paolo. _See under_ Doges
Revolutionaries, 316-317
Rialto, the, 54, 172, 283
bridge of, 115-116, 180
column of, 54
Richard III. of England, 109, 175
Riviera, the, 377
Robert, King, 84
Robespierre, 375
Romagna, 396
Romanin, 11-12, 18, 299, 346, 358, 362, 363, 386
Rome, 10, 28, 78, 81, 106, 111, 141, 173, 174, 186, 208, 209, 212, 213, 256
Barberini Gallery in, 118
‘Royal Macedonian’ regiment, 350
Rubini, the actor, 270
Russia, 175, 341, 377
Sabellico, 150, 155, 158
Saint Catharine, 84
Saint Helen’s Island, 274
Saint Justina, 172
Saint Mark--
procurators of, 231, 305, 336, 359
standard of, 418-420
Saint Mark’s Church, 18, 54, 143, 228, 360
horses of, 417
Sacristy, 25
Saint Mark’s Square, 35, 140, 195, 199, 212, 258, 260, 268, 269, 298, 408, 409, 414, 415
Salimbeni, General, 414
Salò, 332
Salò, Pietro di, 54
Salviati, banking house of, 121
San Cassian, 134, 138, 140, 156
San Cristoforo, island of, 134
San Giacomo in Orio, 157
San Giorgio Maggiore, island of, 275, 405
San Sisto, Cardinal, 176
Sanmichele, 142
Sansovino, Jacopo, 136, 140-144, 162
Sant’ Omobono, 64
Santa Maura, islands of, 227, 230
Sanudo, Marin, 21-22, 35, 36, 65, 68, 70, 73, 150, 155-158, 195, 196, 199, 200
Sardinia, 379
Sarpi, Fra Paolo, 211-213, 218
Saturn’s rings, 167
Savoy, 367
Duke of, 184
Sbirri, 56, 57, 102, 310-333
Scholars, 149-167
Schulenburg, Marshal Count von, 349
Sculptors, 432
See, Holy, 10, 23, 163, 208, 209, 210
Senate, sittings of, 11
Serrurier, General, 417
Shakespeare, 64, 65, 139, 257
Sign of the Old Woman, 180
Signorotti, 56-57, 320
Signors of the Night, 10, 24, 195, 302
Signory, the, 64, 71, 74, 77, 82, 84, 166, 188, 194, 198, 211, 213, 218, 234, 266, 268, 269, 275, 373
‘Silver Book,’ the, 144
Slaves, 169
Smedley, E. W., 11, 105, 378
Sobieski, 226
Societies, secret, 311
Soranzo, Jacopo, 93
Tommaso, 392, 396
Spain, 19, 42, 175, 199, 208, 209, 210, 223
Stampa, Gaspara, 146, 162
Stanislaus Leczinski, King, 320
‘Statutes of the Inquisitors of State,’ 11-12
Steno, Michel. _See under_ Doges
Superstitions, 205-206
‘Talanta,’ Pietro Aretino’s, 196
Tassini, 131, 143, 148
Temesvar, 349
_Terremoto_, 143
Thames, the, 27
Theatre--
Fenice, 285, 287
of San Benedetto, 281, 282, 285
of San Cassian, 246, 304
of San Moisè, 245-246
Theatres, 194, 197, 278-287
Theatrical performances, 194, 278
Thieves, flogging of, 54
Thode, Dr. Heinrich, 67, 74
Tiepolo, Domenico, 392, 396
Giovanni Battista, 251
Tintoretto, 98, 120, 133, 138, 139, 144, 178
Titian, 98, 118, 120, 133, 135-136, 138, 140, 141-145, 162, 261
Tomassetti, Professor, 190
Torcello, 134
Torre, Count Francesco della, 12
Torture, use of, 16-18, 25
Tower of London, 21
Trade, protection of, 108, 110
Treviso, 251, 254, 404
Trieste, 368
Tron, Andrea, 340
Tuileries, 364
Turin, 367
Turkey, 40, 199, 341
Turks, 169-175, 225-230, 348-349, 351, 361
Turner, 116
Tuscan language, 11
Tuscany, 362, 379
Grand Duke of, 126, 136
Usmago, podestà of, 305
Utrecht, treaty of, 362
Valaresso, 278
Valier, Silvestro. _See under_ Doges
Vallesabbia, 390, 393
Valtellina, 210
Vano, Girolamo, 216, 218
Vatican, 23, 77, 164, 212
Vendramin, Andrea, 195
Venice--
ceded to Austria, 417
English ambassadors to, 84
Henry III. of France visits, 175-186
period of decadence, 207-254
period of greatest prosperity, 5
plague visitations, 152, 225
Venier, Girolamo, 340
Sebastian, 173-175, 356
Verona, 57, 323, 375, 376, 377, 383, 384, 391, 398
Veronese, Paolo, 26, 120, 146, 178, 261
trial of, 29-34
Versailles, 364
Congress of, 362
Vervins, 208
Vienna, 68, 226
treaty of, 362
Villetard, 406-410
Vinciolo, Francesco, 107
Visconti, the, 4
Vitali, Doctor Buonafede, 269
Viviani, 164, 165, 167
War of the Spanish Succession, 349, 362, 382
‘Wehmgericht,’ the, 12
Williams, Henry, 164
Wine-sellers, 111-114
‘Wise Men on Blasphemy,’ 196
‘Wise Men on Heresy,’ 23, 24
Wolsey, Cardinal, 87, 92
Women of Venice--
in eighteenth century, 234-246
in sixteenth century, 117-131
Worsley, Sir Richard, 84, 375
Wotton, Sir Henry, 216, 218
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 164
Yriarte, M., 8, 29, 44-45, 78, 79, 119, 128, 146
Zeno, Carlo, 3, 174, 356
Renier, 220, 221
Zulian, Girolamo, 311
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perfect of its kind as this brief and vivid story. It is doubly a
success, being full of human sympathy, as well as thoroughly
artistic.”--_The Critic._
=MARZIO’S CRUCIFIX.=--“We take the liberty of saying that this work
belongs to the highest department of character-painting in words.”--_The
Churchman._
=PAUL PATOFF.=--“It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and
picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in
well-defined surroundings.”--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
=PIETRO GHISLERI.=--“The strength of the story lies not only in the
artistic and highly dramatic working out of the plot, but also in the
penetrating analysis and understanding of the impulsive and passionate
Italian character.”--_Public Opinion._
=THE CHILDREN OF THE KING.=--“One of the most artistic and exquisitely
finished pieces of work that Crawford has produced. The picturesque
setting, Calabria and its surroundings, the beautiful Sorrento and the
Gulf of Salerno, with the bewitching accessories that climate, sea, and
sky afford, give Mr. Crawford rich opportunities to show his rare
descriptive powers. As a whole the book is strong and beautiful through
its simplicity.”--_Public Opinion._
=MARION DARCHE.=--“We are disposed to rank ‘Marion Darche’ as the best of
Mr. Crawford’s American stories.”--_The Literary World._
=THE THREE FATES.=--“The strength of the story lies in portrayal of the
aspirations, disciplinary efforts, trials, and triumphs of the man who
is a born writer, and who by long and painful experiences learns the
good that is in him and the way in which to give it effectual
expression. Taken for all in all, it is one of the most pleasing of all
his productions in fiction, and it affords a view of certain phases of
American, or perhaps we should say of New York, life that have not
hitherto been treated with anything like the same adequacy and
felicity.”--_Boston Beacon._
=KATHARINE LAUDERDALE.=--“It need scarcely be said that the story is
skilfully and picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual
characters in well-defined surroundings.”--_New York Commercial
Advertiser._
=THE RALSTONS.=--“The whole group of character studies is strong and
vivid.”--_The Literary World._
=LOVE IN IDLENESS.=--“The story is told in the author’s lightest vein; it
is bright and entertaining.”--_The Literary World._
=CASA BRACCIO.=--“We are grateful when Mr. Crawford keeps to his Italy.
The poetry and enchantment of the land are all his own, and ‘Casa
Braccio’ gives promise of being his masterpiece.... He has the life, the
beauty, the heart, and the soul of Italy at the tips of his
fingers.”--_Los Angeles Express._
=TAQUISARA.=--“A charming story this is, and one which will certainly be
liked by all admirers of Mr. Crawford’s work.”--_New York Herald._
=ADAM JOHNSTONE’S SON and A ROSE OF YESTERDAY.=--“It is not only one of
the most enjoyable novels that Mr. Crawford has ever written, but is a
novel that will make people think.”--_Boston Beacon._