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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5253258, member: 110504"][USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], I do have a couple of Venetian grossos, which haven't been posted in a <i>little </i>while; might go looking for them.</p><p>But now that you (reiteratively) mention it, it's really striking that I, for one, have seen more about the Iberian and Normano-Staufen Sicilian contributions to the Renaissance, largely by way of Jewish and Islamic influence (Alfonso VI of Castile, in particular, undertook a massive translation campaign from Toledo's libraries), than I've ever run across regarding the Byzantine contribution. Frankly odd, since the connection is so intuitively obvious --and no less intuitively profound.</p><p>...Here's my holed one of Pietro Ziani, earlier 13th century. (Bought mainly for the contemporaneity to Jean de Brienne's tenure as Latin Emperor of Constantinople.)[ATTACH=full]1219016[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5253258, member: 110504"][USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], I do have a couple of Venetian grossos, which haven't been posted in a [I]little [/I]while; might go looking for them. But now that you (reiteratively) mention it, it's really striking that I, for one, have seen more about the Iberian and Normano-Staufen Sicilian contributions to the Renaissance, largely by way of Jewish and Islamic influence (Alfonso VI of Castile, in particular, undertook a massive translation campaign from Toledo's libraries), than I've ever run across regarding the Byzantine contribution. Frankly odd, since the connection is so intuitively obvious --and no less intuitively profound. ...Here's my holed one of Pietro Ziani, earlier 13th century. (Bought mainly for the contemporaneity to Jean de Brienne's tenure as Latin Emperor of Constantinople.)[ATTACH=full]1219016[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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