2. La Cronique des Veneciens de Maistre Martin da Canal.  In Archivo Storico Italiano, 1st ser., vol.  VIII (Florence, 1845).  Written in French and accompanied by a translation into modern Italian.  One of the most charming of medieval chronicles.

B.  Modern Works

1.  For medieval Venice see—­
     F.C.  Hodgson:  The Early History of Venice from the Foundation
       to the Conquest of Constantinople (1901); and Venice in the
       Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, A Sketch of Venetian History,
       1204-1400 (1910). 
     P.G.  Molmenti:  Venice, its Growth to the Fall of the Republic, vols. 
       I and II (The Middle Ages), trans.  H.F.  Brown (1906); and La
       Vie Privee a Venise, vol.  I (1895). 
     H.F.  Brown:  Studies in the History of Venice, vol.  I (1907). 
     Mrs Oliphant:  The Makers of Venice (1905) is pleasant reading and
       contains a chapter on Marco Polo.

2.  For medieval China, the Tartars, and European intercourse with the
far East see—­
     Sir Henry Yule’s introduction to his great edition of Marco Polo (above).
     Cathay and the Way Thither:  Medieval Notices of China, trans. and
       ed. by Sir Henry Yule, 4 vols. (Hakluyt Soc., 1915-16).  Contains
       an invaluable introduction and all the best accounts of China left
       by medieval European travellers.  Above all, Oderic of Pordenone
       (d. 1331) should be read as a pendant to Marco Polo. 
     R. Beazley:  The Dawn of Modern Geography, vols.  II and III
       (1897-1906). 
     R. Grousset:  Histoire de l’Asie, t.  III (3rd edit., 1922), Chap.  I.
       A short and charmingly written account of the Mongol Empires
       from Genghis Khan to Timour. 
     H. Howarth:  History of the Mongols (1876).

3.  For medieval trade with the East the best book is—­
     W. Heyd:  Histoire du Commerce du Levant au Moyen-Age, trans.,
       F. Raynaud; 2 vols. (Leipzig and Paris, 1885-6, reprinted 1923).

C.  Notes to the Text

1.  To be exact, the Flanders galleys which sailed via Gibraltar to Southampton and Bruges were first sent out forty years after 1268—­in 1308.  Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries they sailed every year, and Southampton owes its rise to prosperity to the fact that it was their port of call.

2.  The occasion of the speech quoted was when the imperial representative Longinus was trying to get the help of the Venetians against the Lombards in 568 and invited them to acknowledge themselves subjects of the Emperor.  The speech is quoted in Encyclop.  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