Excerpt from The Royal Pawn of Venice: A Romance of Cyprus And this land of many races and dynasties, of con icting ideals and religions, as of many tongues - where domination was largely a matter of the stronger hand - still held among the nations her ancient soubriquet of the happy isle. But less for her romance and beauty than because this notissima fama' 1313q was a possession to be envied by a diplomatic nation, since its position lent it importance, the Republic had looked upon it with longing eyes - and because of ...
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Excerpt from The Royal Pawn of Venice: A Romance of Cyprus And this land of many races and dynasties, of con icting ideals and religions, as of many tongues - where domination was largely a matter of the stronger hand - still held among the nations her ancient soubriquet of the happy isle. But less for her romance and beauty than because this notissima fama' 1313q was a possession to be envied by a diplomatic nation, since its position lent it importance, the Republic had looked upon it with longing eyes - and because of its commerce. Which equalled that of Venice, long ago the far-seeing Senate had sought to purchase it from the Greek Emperor, but the agreement had come to naught by treachery of the Emperor's son. Nevertheless, Cyprus had not been forgotten; and the time for Venice to make good this remem brance had now come uppermost on the calendar of the years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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