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"The Venetian Chartreuse, placed in a woody island; and that of Rome, rising from amongst groups of majestic ruins, struck me as peculiarly pleasing."

"Marcvs Polvs Venetvs Totivs Orbis et Indie Peregrator Primus."

"Villehardouin says that the fleet which went from Venice to the attack of Constantinople carried more than 300 perriers and mangonels."

"… and I have met at Venice people in plenty who have been there."

"Indeed in Malombra’s Ptolemy (Venice, 1574), I find the next city of Sumatra beyond Pacen marked as Pulaca."

"… published in Romaic at Venice in 1541; a copy before me is printed at Venice in 1865."

"… and compares the church to that of St. John and St. Paul at Venice."

"Coronelli’s Atlas (Venice, 1696) identifies these islands..."

"…there are so many who sail all about that sea constantly, Venetians, and Genoese, and Pisans, and many others"

"…that noble and illustrious citizen of the City of Venice, Messer Marco the son of Messer Nicolo Polo."

"Will of Marco Polo of S. Severo, uncle of the Traveller, executed at Venice, 5th August, 1280."

"… that prudent, honourable, and most truthful gentleman, Messer Marco Polo of Venice, concerning the circumstances and manners of the Regions of the East, …"

"Venice 4 ... 2 ... ..."

"1847. Lazari’s Italian edition was prepared ... in commemoration of the meeting of the Italian Scientific Congress at Venice."

"Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, Raccolte ed Illustrate. Venezia, 1824–1843."

"Accounts were kept at Venice not in ducats and grossi, but in Lire, of which there were several denominations, viz.: 1. Lira dei Grossi, called in Latin Documents Libra denariorum Venetorum grosorum.[6]"

"Ca’ Polo, Ca’ Milion, Corte del Millioni, the house of the Polos at Venice, 4, 26 seqq., 53, 70, 77"

"funeral at Venice, 50"

"and Venice, rivalry and wars of, 41 seqq. Genoese, their growth in skill and splendour, 42"

"in the palace at Venice, 110"

"Venice, 2, 15, 16, i. 2, 18, 19, 36, 41"

"… messer March Pollo ciutada noble de Venecia."

"They watch the waves come in at Venice."

"Now he’s a big Instagram star and he runs a famous capoeira studio in Venice."

"Reynaldo left her and moved to Venice, just last year. He loved the beach more than her and his sons."

"In the car on the way to Venice last night, Joachim had said, 'Are you and Dad divorced?"

"Yesterday afternoon, driving down the freeway toward Pala, I hadn’t told anyone where I was going. Not Dawna. Not Reynaldo, who had the boys in Venice with him, for three days."

"to La Jolla, to Malibu, to Long Beach, to Venice West, Laguna—from the canyon beyond Malibu as the morning fog is swept away into the ocean;"

"I turned south, looking for Venice … and headed—like a gerbil in a cage—back downtown."

"I drove carefully, Van Morrison blaring his “Tupelo Honey” and other repetitive hits, out of the maze of the marina and into Venice, up along the Palisades of Santa Monica, trying to re* member what 1 knew about Buenos Aires."

"Often those girls—dressed to the nines, as we say—had hitchhiked or had their mothers drop them off at the far west of the city, down in the bowels of Venice."

"…she’d walked nearly eight miles already, down out of the canyon to the highway along the ocean where she could catch the bus to Venice for a sewing job that never materialized, and then back again…"

"America remembered her trip to Venice, the terror and disconnectedness of it, and as she settled into her customary spot against the pillar, drawing her legs up under her, she looked out into the heavy ribs of the trees and felt glad to be there."

"…that meant they’d have to go into the city, down to Santa Monica or Venice, or up over the canyon and into the Valley."

"Atiff is talking about clubs in Venice and how he lost a piece of Louis Vuitton luggage in Florence."

"The door’s opened by a boy, maybe fifteen, with bleached-blond hair and the tan, tough looks of most of the surfers at Venice or Malibu."

"Before I left, a woman had her throat slit and was thrown from a moving car in Venice;"

"I surfed Venice and Santa Monica."

"Every day feels like Halloween here, with the performance aspect of people on the beach in Venice."

"“Mecca to Venice at seven p.m. on a Friday in August? About four hours on the 10 if I was lucky. About three hours to get back home … We could heat up the bowls with water at a gas station. In fucking Venice.”"