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Citation Information
WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA
be. Yet Sanudo mentions that he had been with armed galleys
to Sluys in Flanders.
I will mention two more particulars before concluding this
digression. When captured galleys were towed into port it was
stern foremost, and with their colours dragging on the surface of
the sea.* And the custom of saluting at sunset (probably by
music) was in vogue on board the galleys of the 13th
century.t
We shall now sketch the circumstances that led to the
appearance of our Traveller in the command of a war-
galley.
VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMA DORIA'S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC ; BATTLE OF CURZOLA ; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO POLO BY THE GENOESE.
31. Jealousies, too characteristic of the Italian communities,
were, in the case of the three great trading republics of Venice,
Genoa, and Pisa, aggravated by commercial rivalries,
whilst, between the two first of those states, and also
between the two last, the bitterness of such feelings
had been augmenting during the whole course of the
13th century.+
The brilliant part played by Venice in the conquest of
Constantinople (1204), and the preponderance she thus
acquired on the Greek shores, stimulated her arrogance and
the resentment of her rivals. The three states no longer stood
on a level as bidders for the shifting favour of the Emperor of
the East. By treaty, not only was Venice established as the
most important ally of the empire and as mistress of a large
fraction of its territory, but all members of nations at war with
her were prohibited from entering its limits. Though the
Genoese colonies continued to exist, they stood at a great
Growing jealousies and outbreaks between the Republics.
* See .JIunlaner, passim, e.g. 271, 286, 315, 349. t Ibid. 346.
$ In this part of these notices I am repeatedly indebted to Heyd. (See sup a, p. 9.)
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