Excerpt from Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell
Beneath us on this ladder are the 'dutch, Hanseatic, Portuguese, Venetian, and Genoese steps, each and all assisting us out of that maze of barbarism which was incident on the fall of the Roman Empire.
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