Old Continental Towns

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Walter M. Gallichan. Old Continental Towns

Old Continental Towns

Table of Contents

ROME

ASSISI

VENICE

PERUGIA

FLORENCE

VERONA

SEVILLE

CORDOVA

TOLEDO

GRANADA

OPORTO

POITIERS

ROUEN

CHARTRES

RHEIMS

BRUGES

GHENT

ANTWERP

AMSTERDAM

COLOGNE

HEIDELBERG

NUREMBERG

WITTENBERG

PRAGUE

ATHENS

INDEX

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Walter M. Gallichan

Published by Good Press, 2019

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A terrible plague devastated the city in 1575. Among the victims were the great painter, Titian, then nearly a hundred years of age. The epidemic spread all over Venice.

When Pope Paul V. endeavoured to bring the citizens under his autocratic rule, they resisted with much firmness. One of the causes of offence was that the Venetians favoured the principle of toleration in religious beliefs, and permitted the heretical to worship according to their consciences. The Pope, after fruitless negotiations, excommunicated Venice, sending his agents with the documents. With all vigilance, the government of the city forbade the exposure of any papal decree in the streets, while the Doge stoutly asserted that the people of Venice regarded the bull with contempt.

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