Excerpt from The Oligarchy of Venice: An EssayIt was not until the middle of the nine teenth century that Romanin published the first complete, accurate, and unprejudiced history of the republic that had yet appeared.1 The ten volumes of this work entitle their author to rank among the great historians. Of the more recent works on Venetian history that of Hazlitt 2 is valuable for its fullness of detail, while that of Hodgson3 is accurate and scholarly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.