The Early History of Venice From the Foundation to the Conquest of Constantinop
The Early History of Venice From the Foundation to the Conquest of Constantinop
F C Francis Cotterell Hodgson
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Pp. 347-363, and in the school edition of Liut- prand's Works reprinted for Pertz by llahn of Planover. EARLY LEVANT TRADE 157 gone and returned by land, leaving hastily, and apparently by stealth, crossing the Golden Horn in a boat, and thence, in his own words, "asinando, ambulando, equitando, jeju- nando, sitiendo, suspirando, flendo, gemendo " to Naupactus, where he crossed the Adriatic to Otranto. But he had wished to go back earlier in a Venetian merchant ship, and it seems possible that ...his clandestine departure had some connexion with certain purple silk palls he had bought for his church, but was not allowed to carry away, on the ground that the export of silk of the imperial colour was prohibited, though he protested that purple silk was worn in Italy by courtesans and monks, ^ who bought them of the travelling merchants ^ of Amalfi or Venice. Liutprand mentions the presence of Amalfitans and Vene- tians in the army that the Emperor Nicephorus led to Assyria during his stay at Constantinople.
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