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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF VENICE

A Historical Romance of the 16th Century


By

MRS. LAWRENCE TURNBULL

  'This noble citie doth in a manner
  chalenge this at my hands, that
  I should describe her... the
  fairest Lady, yet the richest Paragon,
  and Queene of Christendome.'

1900


  AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS GIFT OF VIVID
  HISTORIC NARRATION WHICH WAS
  THE DELIGHT OF MY CHILDHOOD,
  I INSCRIBE THIS ROMANCE TO THE
  MEMORY OF MY DEAR FATHER.



ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I desire gratefully to acknowledge my indebtedness to many faithful,
loving and able students of Venetian lore, without whose books my own
presentation of Venice in the sixteenth century would have been
impossible. Mr. Ruskin's name must always come first among the prophets
of this City of the Sea, but among others from whom I have gathered
side-lights I have found quite indispensable Mr. Horatio F. Brown's
"Venice; An Historical Sketch of the Republic," "Venetian Studies," and
"Life on the Lagoons"; Mr. Hare's suggestive little volume of "Venice";
M. Leon Galibert's "Histoire de la Republique de Venise"; and Mr.
Charles Yriarte's "Venice" and his work studied from the State papers in
the Frari, entitled "La vie d'un Patricien de Venise."

Mr. Robertson's life of Fra Paolo Sarpi gave me the first hint of this
great personality, but my own portrait has