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**enfoires** · 12-04-2005, 08:00 AM

Is there life after death?
Feb 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition

Review of the book:
Venice: Fragile City 1797-1997
By Margaret Plant

"Ms Plant is professor emeritus in art history at Monash University in Melbourne... She begins by describing the plucky survival of Venice after the fall of the Serene Republic to Napoleon's army in 1797. Napoleon, the liberator, ... behaved like a pig. He stole the four bronze horses from the basilica of San Marco, ... "

And so forth, but apparently Ms Plant fails to note that the Doge originally stole the four famous horses (which are back in Venice now -- or atleast their replicas are) from Constantinople, during his terrible rape of the heart of Christendom; it was called the Fourth Crusade.

12-04-2005, 08:00 AM	#5
enfoires Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	Is there life after death? Feb 27th 2003 From The Economist print edition Review of the book: Venice: Fragile City 1797-1997 By Margaret Plant "Ms Plant is professor emeritus in art history at Monash University in Melbourne... She begins by describing the plucky survival of Venice after the fall of the Serene Republic to Napoleon's army in 1797. Napoleon, the liberator, ... behaved like a pig. He stole the four bronze horses from the basilica of San Marco, ... " And so forth, but apparently Ms Plant fails to note that the Doge originally stole the four famous horses (which are back in Venice now -- or atleast their replicas are) from Constantinople, during his terrible rape of the heart of Christendom; it was called the Fourth Crusade.
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