The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, And Its Fall 421-1797, volume 1
The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, And Its Fall 421-1797, volume 1
Hazlitt William Carew
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The King of Arragon, although he had shown himself of some value as an occasional auxiliary, was not in command of resources, which enabled him at once to cope with Genoa, and to pursue his visionary projects of territorial conquest in Sardinia : nor was he altogether satisfied, perhaps, by the manner in which the Venetians had fulfilled their share of the contract, as seconders of his claims. If he was taunted with being an insincere and faltering ally, there was more than a possibility that h...e might have found room to recriminate. The armistice with Genoa had not been violated by either of the contracting parties, and the negotiations for peace were pro- gressing in a favourable manner, when an event of a totally unexpected nature occurred in the very heart of the Dogado, under the eyes of all Venice. On Carnival-Thursday, the 2nd April 1355,^ the pompous and mystical immolation of the ox and twelve boar-pigs, which symbolised the Patriarch Lupo of Aquileia and his twelve canons, was celebrated in the usual 1 Sismondi, tL 143.
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