STRIKING FORM OF CAPITAL IN ST. MARK S 



It was in a measure the Germans who hrought ahoiit the founding of Vt^yce For a 

 long time the Venetians dwelt at Malamocco, but when King Pepm, tlie son of Uiarlemagne, 

 forced them from their stronohold, thev went to the lagoons at tlie mouth o^f the Kiver fo, 

 where they succeeded in driving off Pepin and establishing tlie new city ot Venice. 



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