| The adoption of fusionist policies by Lombards and Venetians alike proved futile. |
| Then, from one generation the next, the Venetians battled the elements like funambulists walking a tight-rope. |
| In time the French Crusaders received papal absolution for their part in the business at Zara, but the Venetians did not. |
| Opera was a 17th century innovation, and the Venetians at the time took to it with gusto. |
| The settlement and distribution of land to refugees from outside the Morea was of primary importance for the Venetians. |
| Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Venetians engraved some of their glasses using a tool with a diamond tip. |
