Written by Francis Marion Crawford
Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history Vol. I
by Francis Marion CrawfordVenice is the most personal of all cities in the world, the most feminine, the most comparable to a woman, the least dependent, for her individuality, upon her inhabitants, ancient or modern. What would Rome be without the memory of the Cæsars? What would Paris be without the Parisians? What was Constantinople like before it was Turkish? The imagin..