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0161 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
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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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