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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
THE FIRST EPOCH OF VENETIAN HISTORY
1. We must now subdivide our first epoch of seven hundred years into three minor periods:—
1st. The time of the Tribunes, 421–697—two hundred and seventy-six years.
2nd. The time of the Dukes of Malamocco, 697–809—a hundred and twelve years.
3rd. The time of the Dukes of Rialto, 809–1100—two hundred and ninety years.
Now it is of extreme importance that you do not lose hold of your main masses when we begin to subdivide.
Remember that this total first epoch of 680 years is to be thought of always as the foundation of the Venetian Monarchy; the time in which the character of the nation and of the persons who ruled it was every hour becoming more orderly and more noble, every internal discussion securing its greater peace, and every distress of fate its greater strength. Then came the second great epoch of two hundred years, in which the Venetian Noblesse is formed. Then the third great epoch of two hundred years, in which the Venetian Noblesse becomes the governing power. Then the fourth great period of eighty years, in which Noblesse and people are ruined together.
2. Remember, also, that from this broad massing in statement you are to draw no conclusion yet respecting the good or evil of aristocratic government.
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