Excerpt from By Italian Seas: Illustrations by the Author This book has been called By Italian Seas, though to-day several of the countries pictured therein are politically not part of Italy. But they are bound to Italy by the strongest bonds. Dalmatia, though Austrian, was for so long a time under the domina tion of Venice that its art, its civilization, and even its language are essentially Italian. Malta, though English, was a cosmopolitan island, like Sicily, be longing first to one power, then to another, and to none ...
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Excerpt from By Italian Seas: Illustrations by the Author This book has been called By Italian Seas, though to-day several of the countries pictured therein are politically not part of Italy. But they are bound to Italy by the strongest bonds. Dalmatia, though Austrian, was for so long a time under the domina tion of Venice that its art, its civilization, and even its language are essentially Italian. Malta, though English, was a cosmopolitan island, like Sicily, be longing first to one power, then to another, and to none so much as to the Knights of Malta, whose most powerful auberge was that of Italy and Provence. Tunis was Europeanized by Italians, with whom the French protectorate is still a standing grievance and a source of national resentment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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