Identifier: 5926303upenn (find matches)
Title: The civil government at Grado Redenta
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Emilio Ferrando
Subjects: Grado (Italy) - History
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theformer splendours and the great wealth attached to the lordshipof Friuli, and determined at any cost to diminish the importancethat Grado had acquired. This conflict lasted until the day whenthe Patriarchate passed to Venice, already uniting in herself thesplendour and the prosperity of the dwellers among the lagoons. These transfers of authority are ac-companied in history by painful disputes
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from the second, the second reacting onthe first: the greatest amount of authorityin church and state remained with Grado,and therefore it became the metropolis of the Venetian lagoons, itcontinued to be so until the seventh century. At that period, aftera series of quarrels among the brotherhood, Eraclea deprived Gradoof the state leadership, which in process of time passed to Venice. Grado was still the holder of the religious primacy, combinedwith the dignity of the Patriarch, but even for this honour there arosefierce and unhappy contests on the part of revivified Aquileia, already ILLUSTRIOUS GUESTS AT GRADO. as between brothers, throwing the shadowof sorrows upon life in these places, found-ed as quiet and peaceful residences, andnow become in their turn abodes of conflict, of robbery and of death. Fierce battles took place, prelates, warriors and people all bear-ing their share, disturbing the foundation of society, and depriving theinhabitants of the favourable results arising

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