[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 enemy.
[16] Mémoires de Commynes, liv. vii. ch. xviii.
[17] [Appendix 6], “Renaissance Ornaments.”
[18] [Appendix 7], “Varieties of the Orders.”
[19] The reader will find the weak points of Byzantine architecture shrewdly seized, and exquisitely sketched, in the opening chapter of the most delightful book of travels I ever opened,—Curzon’s “Monasteries of the Levant.”
[20] [Appendix 8], “The Northern Energy.”
[21] [Appendix 9], “Wooden Churches of the North.”
[22] [Appendix 10], “Church of Alexandria.”
[23] [Appendix 11], “Renaissance Landscape.”