The Republic of Ragusa: An Episode of the Turkish Conquest

by Luigi Villari

[263] T. G. Jackson, Dalmatia, the Quarnero, and Istria, ii. p. 372.

[264] Jackson, ibid.

[265] R. Eitelberger von Edelberg, Die Mittelalterlichen Kunstdenkmale Dalmatiens, in his Gesammelte Kunsthistorische Werke, iv. pp. 343, 344.

[266] Gelcich, Ragusa, 17, 23.

[267] Eitelberger, op. cit., p. 334.

[268] Jackson, ibid.

[269] The word sponza was also applied to open loggie, built on the borders of the Republic as resting-places for the caravans. One of these existed at S. Michele della Cresta (1356), and another by the Canale di Narenta (Gelcich, p. 73).

[270] De Diversis says it was enlarged in 1312.

[271] Op. cit., ii. 360.

[272] Gelcich, p. 19.