[38] I pozzi e i piombi. Venice, 1876.
[39] Not the present Scala dei Giganti, built two centuries later in a different position.
[40] “I’vo gridando pace, pace, pace!” Canzone all’Italia.
[41] The hero’s statue and a Latin inscription from his tomb in the demolished church of S. Antonio are now in the Museum of the Arsenal.
[42] By an unhappy misprint (ne for non) in Muratori’s ed. of Sanudo Morosini has been grievously calumniated and accused of speculating on his country’s misfortune. See Romanin, iii., p. 310, and Muratori, Rerum Ital. Scriptores, xxii. 743.
[43] The last of the Scalas died a few years ago, a poor cobbler, at Verona.
[44] The ordinary method of putting to the “question” was to tie the victim’s hands behind him and swing him by the wrists over a pulley.
[45] Sanudo gives the population in 1422 as 190,000 souls, about equal to that of Cardiff to-day.
[46] In 1347, a Flanders galley, after a voyage of eight months and seven days, made a profit of 10,000 ducats.
[47] In the reign of Francesco Dandolo.