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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II BYZANTINE VENICE: ST. MARK'S THE primitive patron of the town of Rivo Alto, and of the Republic of the Venetians, was the martyr St. Theodore, whose ancient ftgure still tops one of the columns in the Piazzetta. A church dedicated to this ancient saint is said to have occupied (nearly) the site of St. Mark's before the ninth century. But in the year 819 (or 813), when the seat of government of the Republic was fixed in Rivo Alto, the first Doge's Palace was built on the spot where its successor now stands, and a Ducal Chapel was erected beside it. The body of St. Mark, however, was then preserved at Alexandria; though, after the conquest of Egypt by the Arabs in 640, the church of St. Mark's in which it was kept was exposed to continual insults ftom the victorious infidel. In 829, the Khalif decided to destroy the church, for the sake of its marbles. Some Venetian merchants who happened to be then at Alexandria (a proof of the early maritime commerce of the town) succeeded in carrying off the body of the saint, and conveying it to Venice. On its arrival, it was received in state and housed in the Ducal Chapel; while, in order to show due honour to the Evangelist, St. Theodore was deposed from his place as patron, and St. Mark was made the tutelary saint of the Republic. This Chapel, built under Giovanni Participazio, and dating from 829 onwards, stood between the old Church of St. Theodore, and the Ducal Palace. In ground plan it was probably a simple basilica; ending in the usual apse, and without transepts. A few years before the arrival ofthe relics the Venetians had defeated Pepin, son of Charles the Great, in his attempt to add their territory to the Western Empire, and according to their uniform policy of making treaties with those least likely to be able to put p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217904872 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217904874 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 194 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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