Preface
In this volume I proposed to write a biography of Venice, and if it had seemed advisable I should have prefixed that title to my book. Believing that a State is an organic whole, and that such an organism can be more easily studied in a City - than in a Territorial - State, it appeared to me that the Venetian Republic presented one of the most striking examples of the inception, birth, adolescence, decline, and death of a community which history has to offer for our observation.
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Horatio F. Brown
Ca' Torresella
Venice, December 1892
An edition of Venice: an historical sketch of the Republic
(1893)
Venice
an historical sketch of the republic
by Horatio F. Brown
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