. The Archaeological journal. via. 02. (One-quarter.) Roemeij. riG. 63. (One-quarter.) Beekeueyke. The stoiy of the Venetians and the Altarists and their disseminationover other countries than their own is a fascinatin<) episode in thebook, and may well claim to be called romantic. The Venetian ,u;overn-nient in the year 1454 made a decree whereby it was enacted that ifany workman of any kind should transport his craft into a foreigncountry to the injury of the Republic, and should refuse to returnliome, an emissary should be commissioned to slay him—a thingwhich actually happened in the ca
. The Archaeological journal. via. 02. (One-quarter.) Roemeij. riG. 63. (One-quarter.) Beekeueyke. The stoiy of the Venetians and the Altarists and their disseminationover other countries than their own is a fascinatin<) episode in thebook, and may well claim to be called romantic. The Venetian ,u;overn-nient in the year 1454 made a decree whereby it was enacted that ifany workman of any kind should transport his craft into a foreigncountry to the injury of the Republic, and should refuse to returnliome, an emissary should be commissioned to slay him—a thingwhich actually happened in the case of two workmen from Murano(an island in the Venetian archipelago), whom the Emperor Leopoldhad, two hundred and fifty years later, induced to settle in hisdominions. With the knowledge of this decree in their minds,connoisseurs have been puzzled to account for the great prevalencein the Low Countries, in Germany, and in France of glasses fa^onde Venise. But Mr. Hartshorne has discovered that the .small townof Altare in t
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