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Excerpt from The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay
It 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.
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