1343 to 1354. During
his reign Venice actively extended her commercial conquests in the
Black Sea and the countries around the Levant, engaged part of the time
in active hostilities with the Genoese.]

[Footnote 8: The sequin was a gold coin of Venice and Tuscany, worth
about 9s. 3d. It is sometimes used as equivalent to ducat (Note, page
63, Vol. i.)]

[Footnote 9: Pope Innocent VI., Pope at Avignon, from 1352 to 1362.]

[Footnote 10: Hoffmann states that he derived his materials for this
story from Le Bret's "History of Venice,"--a book which, unfortunately,
up to the time of going to press, the translator had not been able to
obtain.]

[Footnote 11: Nicolo Pisani, a very active naval commander in the
third war with Genoa (1350-1355), fought battles in the Bosphorus, off
Sardinia, and at Porto Longo, near Modon (Greece).]

[Footnote 12: Sardinia was for many, many years an object of
contention between Pisa, Genoa, and the Aragonese. At this time (1354)
it belonged to the latter, but the Genoese were constantly endeavouring
to stir up the people of the island to revolt against the Aragonese;
hence we may see reason for Pisani's being in Sardinian waters.]

[Footnote 13: Equivalent to "Governor," Chioggia was an old town
thirty miles south of Venice, at the southern extremity of the Lagune.
Chiozza = Chioggia.]

[Footnote 14: The state barge of Venice; the word means "little golden
boat." Pope Alexander III. bestowed upon the Doge Sebastian Ziani, for
his victory over Frederick Barbarossa near Parenzo on Ascension Day,
1177, a ring in token of the suzerainty of Venice over the Adriatic.
From this time dates the observance of the annual ceremony of the
Doge's marrying the Adriatic from the Bucentaur.]

[Footnote 15: San Giorgio Maggiore. Venice, as everybody knows, is not
built upon the mainland but upon islands. The two largest, whose
greatest length is from east to west, are divided by the Grand Canal,
upon which axe situated most of the palaces and important public
buildings. South of these two principal islands, and separated from
them by the Giudecca Canal, are the islands of Giudecca and San Giorgio
Maggiore close together, the latter on the east and opposite the south
entrance to the Grand Canal, beyond which are the Piazetta and St.
Mark's Square.]

[Footnote 16: This is larger than the gondola, and also more modern; it
is calculated to hold six persons, and even luggage.]

[Footnote 17: The Fond