Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Painting, Vol. 2 of 8: The Renaissance in Venice
The city Of Venice, rising out of the waters, as Philip de Commines set eyes upon her on the edge of the fifteen hundreds the most triumphant city that I have ever seen - lay to either side of the Grand Canal on the east the Piazza di San Marco, ?anked by its Church of the Doges, far-famed San Marco, and their sumptuous Palace with its chamber of the Grand Council, seat of the government of the Republic on the west, the Piazza of the Rialto, the mart of the world, where forgathered her merchants. A bridge by the Rialto, spanning the canal, joined the two great squares by the way Of the Winding thoroughfare that is called the Merceria.
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