_First Edition, October 1903_ _Second Edition, November 1903_ _Third, Revised and Cheaper Edition, September 1910_ The History of Venice is the history of a State unparalleled in Europe for permanence and stability. For centuries Venice occupied that position of maritime supremacy now held by Great Britain, and time was when an English king was fain to crave the loan of a few warships to vindicate his rights in France. The autonomy of the Venetian Republic so imposed on men’s minds that it was regarded as in the very nature of things, and even so acute an observer as Voltaire wrote in the _Dictionnaire Philosophique_, less than three decades before her fall: “Venice has preserved her indepe…
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