312.] After sixteen months, the quarrel of the interdict was compromised.
Venice, in duel with Islam, could ill afford to break with Rome, even if her national traditions of eight centuries, intertwined with rites of Latin piety, had not forbidden open rupture.

The Papal Court, cowed into resentful silence by antagonism which threatened intellectual revolt through Europe, waived a portion of its claims.

Three French converts from Huguenot opinions to Catholicism, Henri IV., the Cardinal du Perron, and M.de Canaye, adjusted matters.

The interdict was dismissed from Venice rather than removed--in haughty silence, without the clashing of bells from S.Pietro di Castello and S.Marco, without manifestation of joy in the city which regarded Papal interdicts as illegitimate, without the parade of public absolution by the Pope.

Thus the Republic maintained its dignity of self-respect.