among the Antk/tls. 15P 



were re»crved for the republic when the booty was shared, a!'- 

 though their removal to Venice did not take place until after 

 the death of this enlightened doge. The first vessels which 

 set out, only carried the precious rases and ornaments of 

 which the church of Saint Sophia had been stripped, with a 

 great quantity of relics, among which tliere was a fiask filled 

 with the blood of Jesus Christ. 



After the death of Dan-dolo, which happened in 1205, 

 Peter Ziani was elected doge of Venice ; and the Venetians 

 who were at Constantinople elected as their chief Martia 

 Zeno, by the title of Protesta. He had the charge of the ad- 

 ministration of all the provinces, which by the new par- 

 tition had fallen to the republic, and the diplomatic affairs 

 were expedited in the joint names of the emperor Henry, 

 successor to Baldwin, and Zcno the Protesta. ft was the 

 latter who sent the four horses of Chic to Venice, with 

 several precious works in porphyry and marble. 



Peter Ziani, the successor to Dandolo in his dignity of 

 doge, adorned the portal of the church of Saint Mark with 

 them, where they remained until 1798, when the emperor 

 Napoleon brought them to Paris as an ornament of his 

 capital, and the trophy of his victories. 



Upon the alleged Defects in tlie Casting which have teen 

 discovered in these Horses — Answer to tVincktlman — and 

 Conclusion. 



The repairs made after the casting, which are to be seen 



had a palace there. The inhabitants of Pisa nnd the Venetians eogrossed the 

 commerce of the Levant, which gave them the superiority over all the Eu- 

 ropean nations, as well in richer a» in mental acquirements. Henrv Dando- 

 lo joined to the taleots of a good general and a sage politician a most exten- 

 sive knowledge of the world. When Innocent III. excommunicated the cnisii- 

 ders on account of the taldng of Zar.i, the i'lench leaders, who were all spirit- 

 ed and brave knights, but v/ho could neither re.id nor wriie, fe:ired the efTecf* 

 tif the anathema, and consented to all the ccmdiiions which the bishop of 

 Soissons, as authori'.cd by the pope, proscribed to tlum before he gave them 

 absolution ; while Dandolo, with his Venetian'^, coiutantly refused to scknow- 

 l^ge the authority of the pope in temporal affairs, and braved the analhems 

 Vide Laugirr't Mittoire de la R^publiqiie de V<Miiit?, torn. v.. 



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