Brit._, Art.
_Venice_ (by H.F.

Brown), p.1002.The episode of the loaves of bread belongs to the attempt of Pipin, son of Charlemagne, to starve out the Rialto in the winter of 809-10.

Compare the tale of Charlemagne casting his sword into the sea, with the words, 'Truly, even as this brand which I have cast into the sea shall belong neither to me nor to you nor to any other man in all the world, even so shall no man in the world have power to hurt the realm of Venice; and he who would harm it shall feel the wrath and displeasure of God, even as it has fallen upon me and my people.'-- See Canale, _Cron._, c.VIII.These are, of course, all legends.
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'Voirs est que la mer Arians est de le ducat de Venise.'-- Canale, op.
cit., p.600.Albertino Mussato calls Venice 'dominatrix Adriaci maris.'-- Molmenti, _Venice_, I, p.

120.
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