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Old Fort, the (Corfu),
138
,
140
,
142
,
143

Orsini, Giorgio,
174
,
181

Othello,
97
;

Tower of,
107
,
109

Otranto Strait, the,
136-7
,
153

Ottoman Empire, the,
4
,
6
,
124
,
127
,
128
,
137
;

see also
Turks

Pala d’Oro, the,
15
,
40
,
180
,
185

Palaeologus, Graitzas,
120

Palamidhi, fortress of,
129
,
130-31

Pantokrator Monastery,
40

Pantokrator, Mount,
137

Paros,
47
,
51
,
52

Parthenon, the,
132
,
133-4

Pasqualigo, Filippo,
146

Patmos,
45

Patras,
118
,
123

Paxos,
150

Peloponnese, the,
113-34
,
138
,
140

Perast,
157
,
161
,
170

Persians, the, in Venice,
15
,
16
;

in Constantinople,
36

Pesaro, Benedetto, Captain-General,
62

Pesaro, Jacopo, Admiral, Bishop of Paphos,
62
,
181

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia,
161

Petrarch, Francesco,
77-8
,
177
,
186

Phidias,
34

Piazza San Marco
see
St Mark, Little Piazza of

Pietà, Monte di,
183

Piran,
159

Pirates and corsairs,
4
,
45
,
50
,
86
,
102
,
107
,
121
,
161-3
,
164

Pisani, Vettore, Captain-General,
60-61
,
179
,
181

Pius II, Pope,
2
,
72

Polidoro, Jerome,
112

Poreč,
4
,
160

Propylaea, the,
133
,
134

Proveditor-General of the Levant, the,
139
,
142

Pula,
61
,
156
,
174

Quarter and a Half-Quarter of the Roman Empire, Lords of a,
12
,
42

Querini, Lord of Stampaha,
47

Querini-Stampalia Palace, the,
183

Radovan,
174

Reading Club, the, (Corfu),
144
,
151

Renier, Giovanni,
109

Rethimnon,
72
,
84
,
87
,
88

Rhodes,
5
,
46
,
61

Rialto, the,
10
,
13
,
147
,
178

Rocca al Mare, La,
75

Rodriga, Daniele,
163

Roman Catholic Church, the,
4
,
6
,
16-17
,
19
,
47
,
48-9
,
62
,
63
,
64
,
73
,
76
,
81
,
153
,
162

St Irene, church of,
37

St John, cathedral of,
116

St John, Knights of,
5
,
46
,
89
,
98

St Mark, Basilica of,
10
,
14-15
,
16
,
18
,
21
,
40
,
127
,
155
,
173
,
177
,
179-81

St Mark, Basin of,
10
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
23
,
77
,
95
,
127

St Mark, lions of,
16
,
59
,
84
,
95
,
97
,
107
,
116
,
120
,
127
,
129
,
131
,
134
,
136
,
152
,
157-9
,
177
,
178
,
182
,
185

St Mark, Little Piazza of,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
23
,
178

St Mark, Piazza of,
10
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
17
,
40
,
127
,
163
,
179
,
184

St Mark, quadriga of,
36
,
40
,
44
,
185-7

St Nicolas, cathedral of,
108

Salamis,
100
,
109

Samaria Gorge, the,
84

San Andrea, fortress of,
177

San Domenico, monastery of,
99

San Giorgio, church of,
184

San Giorgio Maggiore,
10
;

monastery of,
40
,
54

San Giuseppe, church of,
128

San Michele, church of,
181

Sanmicheli, Michele,
74
,
177

San Niccolò dei Greci, Scuola di,
83

San Stefano, church of,
181

Santa Maria Zobenigo, church of,
181

Santa Sophia, church and mosque of (Constantinople),
27
,
32
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
41
,
42-3

Santa Sophia, church of (Monemvasia),
121
,
122-3

Santa Sophia, cathedral and mosque of (Nicosia),
103-4

Santi Apostoli, church of,
113

Sanudo, Marin, Duke Marco I of the Archipelago,
46-7
,
48
,
49
,
67

San Zanipolo, church of,
112
,
181-2
,
184

Sapienza Island,
115

Sardinas family, the,
143
,
145

Savoy, King of,
89

Schiavoni, Riva degli,
10
,
14
,
177

Schiavoni, Scuola of the,
182-3

Schulenburg, Johann von der, Count,
150

Scutari,
29

Selim II, ‘the Sot’, Sultan of Turkey,
51
,
102
,
112
,
161

Selvo, Domenico, Doge of Venice,
15

Senj,
162
,
174

Serifos,
50
,
63

Sfakiots, the,
86

Sibenik,
174
,
181

Sicily, King of,
136

Sifnos,
63

Signory, the,
3
,
4
,
50
,
51
,
63
,
64
,
71
,
77
,
95
,
99
,
100
,
106
,
107
,
112
,
113
,
118
,
129
,
134
,
137
,
139
,
141
,
150
,
163
,
164

Slavs, the,
15
,
36
,
129
,
154
,
157
,
159
,
161
,
165
,
172-4
,
183
,
185

Soudha,
69
,
72
,
90

Spain, Empire of,
6
;

and battle of Lepanto,
125

Spaniards, the, in Greece,
42
,
117
;

and battle of Lapanto,
126

Sparta,
117

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