Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE CORDEVOLE. In the days when Covolo belonged to Venice, the defence of the fortress was confidedto that spirited little mountain people whom the Doge spoke of as I nostri fedelissimiSette Comuni (our most faithful Seven Communes). It was German faithfulness that hadearned this epithet; for the Seven Communes that linger on high up among the Venetianmountains are sprung from an ancient German stock, although how they came there isa riddle to C1TTADELLA. Already, in the earliest times in which we have any record of them, the hominesTciiionici
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE CORDEVOLE. In the days when Covolo belonged to Venice, the defence of the fortress was confidedto that spirited little mountain people whom the Doge spoke of as I nostri fedelissimiSette Comuni (our most faithful Seven Communes). It was German faithfulness that hadearned this epithet; for the Seven Communes that linger on high up among the Venetianmountains are sprung from an ancient German stock, although how they came there isa riddle to C1TTADELLA. Already, in the earliest times in which we have any record of them, the hominesTciiionici arc mentioned as dwelling in the Seven Communes among the mountains of theVicentino; and they were then held to be the descendants of those blonde Cimbri whomMarius defeated near Verona. In the last century, the answer of these people to anyenquiry as to their race and name would be Ich pin an Cimbro ( I am a Cimber).The .Seven Communes which embrace a population of about thirty thousand souls in theirscattered farmsteads, and the central point of which is the hamlet of Asiago, had early FROM VERONA TO THE MOUNTAINS OF VENETIA. formed themselves into a brave little republic, which existed rather under the protection,than the rule, of Venice. They had their own constitution, founded upon certain ancientspecial rights, the compilation of which reaches back to the time of Ludwig of Bavaria;and they were alwayslooked upon by the sur-rounding populations assomething peculiar, foreign,and m
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