The battle in which the Venetians under Nicolo
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under Paganino Doria was fought
November 4, 1354.
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under Paganino Doria was fought
November 4, 1354.
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[388] [According to Sanudo (_Vitae Ducum Venetorum, apud_ Muratori,
_Rerum Ital. Script_. , 1733, xxii. 529), it was Ser Pantaleone Barbo who
intervened, when (A. D. 1204) the election to the Empire of
Constantinople lay between the Doge "Arrigo Dandolo" and "Conte
Baldovino di Fiandra. "]
[dd] {354} ----_in olden days. _--[MS. M. ]
[389] {356}[According to the much earlier, and, presumably, more
historical narrative of Lorenzo de Monaci, Bertuccio Isarello was not
chief of the _Arsenalotti_, but simply the patron, that is the owner, of
a vessel (_paron di nave_), and consequently a person of importance
amongst sailors and naval artisans; and the noble who strikes the fatal
blow is not Barbaro, but a certain Giovanni Dandolo, who is known, at
that time, to have been "_sopracomito and consigliere del capitano da
mar_. " If the Admiral of the Arsenal had been engaged in the conspiracy,
the fact could hardly have escaped the notice of contemporary
chroniclers. Signor Lazzarino suggests that the name Gisello, or
Girello, which has been substituted for that of Israel Bertuccio, is a
corruption of Isarello. --_La Congiura_, p. 74. ]
[390] [The island of Sapienza lies about nine miles to the north-west of
Capo Gallo, in the Morea.
The battle in which the Venetians under Nicolo
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under Paganino Doria was fought
November 4, 1354. (See _Venice, an Historical Sketch_, by Horatio F.
Brown, 1893, p. 201. )]
[391] An historical fact. See Marin Sanuto's _Lives of the Doges_.
["Sanuto says that Heaven took away his senses for this buffet, and
induced him to conspire:--'Pero fu permesso che il Faliero perdesse
l'intelletto. '"--_B. Letters_ (_Works, etc. _, 1832, xii. 82. note 1).
[392] {358}["The number of their constant Workmen is 1200; and all these
Artificers have a Superior Officer called _Amiraglio_, who commands the
_Bucentaure_ on Ascension Day, when the Duke goes in state to marry the
sea. And here we cannot but notice, that by a ridiculous custom this
Admiral makes himself Responsible to the _Senat_ for the inconstancy of
the Sea, and engages his Life there shall be no Tempest that day. 'Tis
this Admiral who has the Guard of the Palais, St. Mark, with his
_Arsenalotti_, during the _interregnum_.
[388] [According to Sanudo (_Vitae Ducum Venetorum, apud_ Muratori,
_Rerum Ital. Script_. , 1733, xxii. 529), it was Ser Pantaleone Barbo who
intervened, when (A. D. 1204) the election to the Empire of
Constantinople lay between the Doge "Arrigo Dandolo" and "Conte
Baldovino di Fiandra. "]
[dd] {354} ----_in olden days. _--[MS. M. ]
[389] {356}[According to the much earlier, and, presumably, more
historical narrative of Lorenzo de Monaci, Bertuccio Isarello was not
chief of the _Arsenalotti_, but simply the patron, that is the owner, of
a vessel (_paron di nave_), and consequently a person of importance
amongst sailors and naval artisans; and the noble who strikes the fatal
blow is not Barbaro, but a certain Giovanni Dandolo, who is known, at
that time, to have been "_sopracomito and consigliere del capitano da
mar_. " If the Admiral of the Arsenal had been engaged in the conspiracy,
the fact could hardly have escaped the notice of contemporary
chroniclers. Signor Lazzarino suggests that the name Gisello, or
Girello, which has been substituted for that of Israel Bertuccio, is a
corruption of Isarello. --_La Congiura_, p. 74. ]
[390] [The island of Sapienza lies about nine miles to the north-west of
Capo Gallo, in the Morea.
The battle in which the Venetians under Nicolo
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under Paganino Doria was fought
November 4, 1354. (See _Venice, an Historical Sketch_, by Horatio F.
Brown, 1893, p. 201. )]
[391] An historical fact. See Marin Sanuto's _Lives of the Doges_.
["Sanuto says that Heaven took away his senses for this buffet, and
induced him to conspire:--'Pero fu permesso che il Faliero perdesse
l'intelletto. '"--_B. Letters_ (_Works, etc. _, 1832, xii. 82. note 1).
[392] {358}["The number of their constant Workmen is 1200; and all these
Artificers have a Superior Officer called _Amiraglio_, who commands the
_Bucentaure_ on Ascension Day, when the Duke goes in state to marry the
sea. And here we cannot but notice, that by a ridiculous custom this
Admiral makes himself Responsible to the _Senat_ for the inconstancy of
the Sea, and engages his Life there shall be no Tempest that day. 'Tis
this Admiral who has the Guard of the Palais, St. Mark, with his
_Arsenalotti_, during the _interregnum_.
