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Lindsay (1847) I p.68 wrote:
These three cities, Venice, Ancona and Ravenna, maintained the closest intercourse with Constantinople, acknowledged political dependance, indeed, upon the eastern empire for ages after the conquest of Justinian, nor was it till the twelfth century that the Greeks lost their last footing in the peninsula. But though the Architecture of Byzantium, in its strictest purity, confined itself to the shores of the Adriatic, its influence spread far and wide through Europe, the Cross and the Cupola, its distinctive features, having been adopted (as we shall see) at a very early period by the Lombards, the last of the Teutonic tribes to settle in Italy, and the first to lead the way towards the civilisation of which we are heirs.
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