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Excerpt from The Queen of the Adriatic: Or Venice Past and Present
In the following pages, our restricted limits will con fine us to the merest summary - a skeleton, which it would need an abler hand to clothe with flesh and blood. Yet, so deep is the charm which like a magical light sur rounds the history of the Queen of the Adriatic-x - so full are her annals of touches of heroism, devotion, and gran deur, and even of the highest pathos and the most solemn gloom - that we are not without hopes the reader may be induced to follow with some degree of interest the rapid sketch we have attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
