nice, _ib._;
victory of her fleet over Pisani, 445;
insolence of her admiral towards the Venetian ambassadors, 446;
her subsequent reverses, 447;
surrender of her forces to Venice, 448;
decline of her power, 449;
her government and its various changes, _ib._;
dissensions of the Guelfs and Ghibelins, 450;
her first doge, 451;
frequent revolutions of her citizens, _ib._;
the Adorni and Fregosi factions, 496;
commercial dealings of the Genoese, iii. 329;
their position in Constantinople, 330;
their manufactures, 331;
their money transactions, 337, 340;
state security taken by their bankers, 341.

Germany conquered by Charlemagne, i. 9, 10;
held by Louis his grandson, 16;
passes away from his family, 17;
its Hungarian assailants, 19;
its first apostles, 121;
political state of ancient Germany, 145;
mode in which kings were chosen, _ib._;
lands in conquered provinces, how-divided, 146;
customs respecting alodial and salic lands, 147-149 and _notes_;
superior position of its rulers as compared with those of France, 204;
causes of the reversal of this state of things, _ib._;
degree of reliance due to Tacitus's accounts of German institutions,
273-275;
character of its governments, 302;
limited power of its kings, 302-304;
its position at the death of Charles the Fat, ii. 66;
election of its emperors, in whom vested, 77-80;
partitions of territory amongst its princes, 83, 84;
importance of its free cities, 90;
privileges conferred on them, _ib._;
their warfare with the nobles, 91;
the sanctuary of the palisades, 92;
league of the cities, _ib._;
polity of the principalities, 93;
extent of the imperial domains, _ib._;
their gradual alienation by the emperors, _ib._;
the diet of Worms and its results, 94-98;
limits of the German empire at various periods, 100;
absence of towns, iii. 312;
pre-eminence of its robber chiefs, 314.
See Diet, Justice.

Ghent, populousness and impregnability of, i. 92, 93;
policy of its people relative to taxation, 93 _note_;
its trading eminence, iii. 319;
its houses and population, 320 _note_ f.

Ghibelins, origin of the word, ii. 73.
See Guelfs.

Giovanni di Vicenza, singular success of the exhortations of, i. 403;
result of his attempts at sovereignty, 404.

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