e capricious towering of summer clouds in the sunset, ere they sank
into the deep of night; or whether, rather, we shall not behold in the
brightness of their accumulated marble, pages on which the sentence of
her luxury was to be written until the waves should efface it, as they
fulfilled--"God has numbered thy kingdom, and finished it."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Appendix 1, "Foundation of Venice."

[2] Appendix 2, "Power of the Doges."

[3] Sismondi, Hist. des Rep. Ital., vol. i. ch. v.

[4] Appendix 3, "Serrar del Consiglio."

[5] "Ha saputo trovar modo che non uno, non pochi, non molti,
signoreggiano, ma molti buoni, pochi migliori, e insiememente, _un
ottimo solo_." (_Sansovino._) Ah, well done, Venice! Wisdom this,
indeed.

[6] Daru, liv. xii. ch. xii.

[7] Daru, liv. xvi. cap. xx. We owe to this historian the discovery
of the statutes of the tribunal and date of its establishment.

[8] Ominously signified by their humiliation to the Papal power (as
before to the Turkish) in 1509, and their abandonment of their right
of appointing the clergy of their territories.

[9] The senate voted the abdication of their authority by a majority
of 512 to 14. (Alison, ch. xxiii.)

[10] By directing the arms of the Crusaders against a Christian
prince. (Daru, liv. iv. ch. iv. viii.)

[11] Appendix 4, "San Pietro di Castello."

[12] Tomaso Mocenigo, above named, Sec. V.

[13] "In that temple porch,
(The brass is gone, the porphyry remains,)
Did BARBAROSSA fling his mantle off,
And kneeling, on his neck receive the foot
Of the proud Pontiff--thus at last consoled
For flight, disguise, and many an aguish shake
On his stone pillow."

I need hardly say whence the lines are taken: Rogers' "Italy" has, I
believe, now a place in the best beloved compartment of all
libraries, and will never be removed from it. There is more true
expression of the spirit of Venice in the passages devoted to her in
that poem, than in all else that has been written of her.

[14] At least, such success as they had. Vide Appendix 5, "The Papal
Power in Venice."

[15] The inconsiderable fortifications of the arsenal are no
exception to this statement, as far as it regards the city itself.
They are little more than a semblance of precaution against the
attack of a foreign