Named Entity Results, Venice (Italy)

the language; but in so far as concerns the situation and condition of the land, it could not be better: we decided to leave that place, and to go further on, continuously coasting the shore; upon which we made frequent descents, and held converse with a great number of people: and at the end of some days we went into a harbour where we underwent very great danger; and it pleased the Holy Ghost to save us; and it was in this wise. We landed in a harbour, where we found a village built like Venice upon the water: there were about 44 large dwellings in the form of huts erected upon very thick piles, and they had their doors or entrances in the style of drawbridges: and from each house one could pass through all, by means of the drawbridges which stretched from house to house; and when the people thereof had seen us, they appeared to be afraid of us, and immediately drew up all the bridges; and while we were looking at this strange action, we saw coming across the sea about 22 canoes, w

Cabot 1476-1557 The name of a family of explorers intimately connected with the history of America. Cabot, John John Cabot is supposed to have been born in Genoa, although some historians have claimed Venice as his birthplace. There is evidence that for fifteen years prior to 1476 he resided in Venice, and in that year formally became a citizen. Subsequently he removed to Bristol, England, and engaged in mercantile business. With a view of finding a shorter route to India, HudsonVenice, and in that year formally became a citizen. Subsequently he removed to Bristol, England, and engaged in mercantile business. With a view of finding a shorter route to India, Hudson Bay where Cabot sought a Northwest passage. Sebastian Cabot he determined to attempt a northwest passage. To further his undertaking he secured from Henry VII. a patent for the discovery of any unknown lands lying in either the eastern, western, or northern seas. Cabot, Sebastian Sebastian Cabot, the second son of John Cabot, was born in Bristol, England, in 1477. As his name appears in the petition of his father to Henry VII. for the patent above mentioned, it is believed that h

us. The fears of the mariners caused them to Christopher Columbus. turn back from the threatenings of the turbulent Atlantic. Disgusted with this pitiful trick, reduced to poverty, and having lost his wife, he determined to leave Portugal and ask aid from elsewhere. With his son Diego, he left Lisbon for Spain secretly in 1484, while his brother Bartholomew prepared to go to England to ask aid for the projected enterprise from Henry VII. Genoa again declined to help him; so also did Venice; and he applied to the powerful and wealthy Spanish dukes of Medina-Sidonia and Medina-Celi. They declined, but the latter recommended the project to Queen Isabella, then with her Court at Cordova, who requested the navigator to be sent to her. In that city he became attached to Donna Beatrice Enriques, by whom he had a son, Ferdinand, born in 1487, who became the biographer of his father. It was an inauspicious moment for Columbus to lay his projects before the Spanish monarchs, for the

nd Americans got up a coffee-house representation of Otway's Orphans in Boston. The pressure for entrance to the novelty was so great that a disturbance arose, which gave the authorities reason for taking measures for the suppression of such performances. At the next session of the legislature a law was made prohibiting theatrical entertainments, because, as it was expressed in the preamble, they tended not only to discourage industry and frugality, but likewise greatly to increase immorality, impiety, and a contempt for religion. Regular theatrical performances were introduced into America soon afterwards, when, in 1752, a company of actors from London, led by William and Lewis Hallam, played (a part of them) the Beauxa stratagem at Annapolis. Soon afterwards the whole brought out the play of the Merchant of Venice at Williamsburg, Va. The same company afterwards played at Philadelphia, Perth Amboy, New York, and Newport. The laws excluded them from Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Howells, William Dean 1837- Author; born in Martin Ferry, O., March 1, 1837. His education was largely acquired in Ohio newspaper offices, where he worked as compositor, correspondent, and editor. In 1861-65 he was United States consul in Venice, and while there studied Italian language and literature; in 1865-66 was an editorial writer on The nation, and in 1866-72 its assistant editor; in 1872-81 editor of the Atlantic monthly; in 1886-91 an editorial contributor to Harper's magazine, ame editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine. In 1900 he was called to occupy the Editor's easy chair in Harper's monthly magazine, which had been vacant since the death of George William Curtis in 1892. He is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; Venetian life; Italian journeys; Life of Rutherford B. Hayes; The undiscovered country; William Dean Howells. A woman's reason; Christmas every day; The day of their wedding; An open-eyed conspiracy; Stories of Ohio; Ragged Lady; Their silver wedding j

commerce, and chiefly the commerce of a republic, indifferent to the spread of liberal institutions. That would be a sad experience, teeming with incalculable misfortunes, reserved to the nineteenth century. Until now history has recorded that commerce has been the most powerful locomotive of principles and the most fruitful ally of civilization, intelligence, and of liberty. It was merchants whose names are shining with immortal lustre from the most glorious pages of the golden books of Venice, Genoa, etc. Commerce, republican commerce, raised single cities to the position of mighty powers on earth, and maintained them in that proud position for centuries; and surely it was neither indifference nor opposition to republican principles by which they have thus ennobled the history of commerce and of humanity. I know full well that, since the treasures of commerce took their way into the coffers of despotism, in the shape of eternal loans, and capital began to speculate upon the oppr

ndia and China companies, which were then called Compagnie des Indes. It also absorbed the African Company, the mint, and the powers of the receivers-general. Thus it became supreme in the financial affairs of France, both at home and abroad. In 1718 the Banque Generale was changed to the Banque Royal, and John Law was made director-general. For two or three years the Compagnie des Indes greatly prospered, and Law became a man of wide power. On Jan. 5, 1720, he was appointed comptroller-general of finances, and in the following month the bank and company were combined. The over-issue of paper money, however, and the hostility of the government produced a disaster, and in May, 1720, the company fell to pieces. The property of Law was confiscated, and he was forced to leave France. In December of the same year he was offered the control of Russia's finances, but he refused to accept. In 1721-25 he lived in England, and then went to Venice, where he died in poverty, May 21, 1729.

Maximilian, Ferdinand Joseph 1832- Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico; born in Vienna, July 6, 1832, and, having entered the naval service, was made rearadmiral and chief of the Austrian navy in 1854. In 1857 he was made governor of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, and in the same year married Charlotte, daughter of Leopold I., of Belgium. He departed for Mexico in April, 1864, and landed, with his wife, at Vera Cruz in May. The French army had already taken possession of the country. The archduke assumed the crown of Mexico, with the title of Maximilian I., and, being childless, adopted a son of Iturbide (q. v.) as his presumptive successor on the throne. Juarez, the President, who had been driven from the capital, and, with his followers, declared by the new Emperor to be an outlaw and usurper, made such strong resistance that Maximilian had to struggle for his throne from the very beginning. When the American Civil War was ended, Napoleon was given to understand, by

Mitchell, Donald Grant 1822- (pen-name Ik marvel), author; born in Norwich, Conn., April 12, 1822; studied at Judge Hall's Ellington School in 1830-37, and graduated at Yale College in 1841. After spending three years in farm-work he studied law in New York in 1846. He was United States consul in Venice in 1853-55. Returning to the United States he settled on his farm at Edgewood and devoted himself to literature. His publications include Fresh Gleanings; The battle summer, or Paris in 1848; Reveries of a bachelor; Dream life; Fudge doings; My farm of Edgewood; Seven stories with basement and Attic; Dr. Johns; Out-of-town places; English lands; Letters and Kings; American lands and letters, etc.