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... Italy , said to be of the same race as the Etruscans , were the last inhabitants of the peninsula to submit to the arms of Rome , and the first to refuse submission to her barbarian con- querors . Their maritime skill and their devotion ...
... Italy , said to be of the same race as the Etruscans , were the last inhabitants of the peninsula to submit to the arms of Rome , and the first to refuse submission to her barbarian con- querors . Their maritime skill and their devotion ...
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... Italy , to attack the Venetian lagoons , his forces were repulsed with loss , and the independence of the Republic established on a still firmer basis . This benefit , how- ever , had been dearly purchased . The citizens had abandoned ...
... Italy , to attack the Venetian lagoons , his forces were repulsed with loss , and the independence of the Republic established on a still firmer basis . This benefit , how- ever , had been dearly purchased . The citizens had abandoned ...
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... 1383 , left her exhausted- by a long war , and contented with the conditions of a peace not entirely glorious . But she soon rallied from her prostration , and became ere long indisputably the arbitress of Italy , and Venice . ( 9.
... 1383 , left her exhausted- by a long war , and contented with the conditions of a peace not entirely glorious . But she soon rallied from her prostration , and became ere long indisputably the arbitress of Italy , and Venice . ( 9.
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... Italy was one which her children may well look back upon with pride . Before the close of the fifteenth century she had acquired the rich island of Cyprus ; and , in the first decade of the sixteenth , she signalized herself by her ...
... Italy was one which her children may well look back upon with pride . Before the close of the fifteenth century she had acquired the rich island of Cyprus ; and , in the first decade of the sixteenth , she signalized herself by her ...
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Venice abandoned herself to the luxurious lethargy in which Italy was for the most part wrapped , and seemed to think she had done enough for glory . During the long years of the eighteenth century a peace party grew up within her walls ...
Venice abandoned herself to the luxurious lethargy in which Italy was for the most part wrapped , and seemed to think she had done enough for glory . During the long years of the eighteenth century a peace party grew up within her walls ...
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