Here the Venetians built their
city on what had hitherto been uncultivated and almost uninhabited
sand-banks. Under such unfavorable circumstances was started the
career of that wonderful city which afterward became "Queen of the
Adriatic" and mother of art, science, and learning.
The two greatest authorities on Venice are Thomas Hodgkin, who made
a life study of Italy and her invaders, and the immortal Ruskin,
whose grandly descriptive articles were written in the atmosphere
of Venice and the Adriatic Sea.
THOMAS HODGKIN
The terrible invaders, made wrathful and terrible by the resistance of
Aquileia, streamed through the trembling cities of Venetia. Each earlier
stage in the itinerary shows a town blotted out by their truly Tartar
genius for destruction. At the distance of thirty-one miles from
Aquileia stood the flourishing colony of Tulia Concordia, so named,
probably, in commemoration of the universal peace which, four hundred
and eighty years before, Augustus had established in the world.
Concordia was destroyed, and only an insignificant little village now
remains to show where it once stood.
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