Types of Venice
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BASILICA TYPE
The state of Venice existed Thirteen Hundred and Seventy-six years, from the first establishment of a consular government on the island of the Rialto to the moment when the General-in-chief of the French army of Italy pronounced the Venetian republic a thing of the past. Of this period, Two Hundred and Seventy-six years were passed in a nominal subjection to the cities of old Venetia, especially to Padua, and in an agitated form of democracy, of which the executive appears to have been entrusted to tribunes, chosen, one by the inhabitants of each of the principal islands.
For six hundred years, during which the power of Venice was continually on the increase, her government was an elective monarchy, her King or doge possessing, in early times at least, as much independent authority as any other European sovereign, but an authority gradually subjected to limitation, and shortened almost daily of its prerogatives, while it increased in a spectral and incapable magnificence. The final government of the nobles, under the image of a king, lasted for five hundred years, during which Venice reaped the fruits of her former energies, consumed them,—and expired.
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BASILICA DEVELOPMENT
- Convento -
CONVENTO TYPE
LET THE READER THEREFORE CONCEIVE THE EXISTENCE OF THE VENETIAN STATE AS BROADLY DIVIDED INTO TWO PERIODS: THE FIRST OF NINE HUNDRED, THE SECOND OF FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, THE SEPARATION BEING MARKED BY WHAT WAS CALLED THE SERRAR DEL CONSIGLIO THAT IS TO SAY, THE FINAL AND ABSOLUTE DISTINCTION OF THE NOBLES FROM THE COMMONALTY, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THEIR HANDS TO THE EXCLUSION ALIKE OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE PEOPLE ON THE ONE SIDE, AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE DOGE ON THE OTHER.
THEN THE FIRST PERIOD, OF NINE HUNDRED YEARS, PRESENTS US WITH THE MOST INTERESTING SPECTACLE OF A PEOPLE STRUGGLING OUT OF ANARCHY INTO ORDER AND POWER; AND THEN GOVERNED, FOR THE MOST PART, BY THE WORTHIEST AND NOBLEST MAN WHOM THEY COULD FIND AMONG THEM, HA SAPUTO TROVAR MODO CHE NON UNO, NON POCHI, NON MOLTI, SIGNOREGGIANO, MA MOLTI BUONI, POCHI MIGLIORI, E INSIEMEMENTE, UN OTTIMO SOLO
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CONVENTO DEVELOPMENT
- Contarini -
CONTARINI TYPE
At high water no land is visible for many miles to the north or south of Venice, except in the form of small islands crowned with towers or gleaming with villages: there is a channel, some three miles wide, between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic, but which is so low as hardly to disturb the impression of the city’s having been built in the midst of the ocean.
although the secret of its true position is partly, yet not painfully, betrayed by the clusters of piles set to mark the deep-water channels, which undulate far away in spotty chains like the studded backs of huge sea-snakes, and by the quick glittering of the crisped and crowded waves that flicker and dance before the strong winds upon the unlifted level of the shallow sea.
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CONTARINI DEVELOPMENT
- Trattoria -
TRATTORIA TYPE
THE GREAT LEADING ERROR OF MODERN TIMES IS THE MISTAKING ERUDITION FOR EDUCATION. I CALL IT THE LEADING ERROR, FOR I BELIEVE THAT, WITH LITTLE DIFFICULTY, NEARLY EVERY OTHER MIGHT BE SHOWN TO HAVE ROOT IN IT; AND, MOST ASSUREDLY, THE WORST THAT ARE FALLEN INTO ON THE SUBJECT OF ART.
EDUCATION THEN, BRIEFLY, IS THE LEADING HUMAN SOULS TO WHAT IS BEST, AND MAKING WHAT IS BEST OUT OF THEM; AND THESE TWO OBJECTS ARE ALWAYS ATTAINABLE TOGETHER, AND BY THE SAME MEANS; THE TRAINING WHICH MAKES MEN HAPPIEST IN THEMSELVES, ALSO MAKES THEM MOST SERVICEABLE TO OTHERS. TRUE EDUCATION, THEN, HAS RESPECT, FIRST TO THE ENDS WHICH ARE PROPOSABLE TO THE MAN, OR ATTAINABLE BY HIM; AND, SECONDLY, TO THE MATERIAL OF WHICH THE MAN IS MADE.
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Digitizing the historical typefaces found across Venice