Identifier: 5926303upenn (find matches)
Title: The civil government at Grado Redenta
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Emilio Ferrando
Subjects: Grado (Italy) - History
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ck,with the women and children, and itwas a black night in every respect. Light shone upon the islandwhither they went, and they landedthere with nothing of their own, nei-ther dwellings, nor statues, nor trea-sures, only tears and confidence inthe future remained to them.n Thus rose the city, which theycalled Aquileia Nova, on a tongue ofland, possibly with more space thanthe old village, already inhabited bysome families of fishermen and ador-ned by some simple chapel. Thissite is at the end of the wide lagoonthat stretches from the Isonzo to PortoBuso and goes further on towardsMarano and Caorle, and finishesdown at the lagoons of Torcello,Murano, Venice, Chioggia. At that time there were onlymarshes with varying channels ac-cording to the depth of water, witha thick vegetation that hid the trea-cherous places, and imparted to theair a stagnant vapour, distressing forthose who contemplated living in thisdesolate region. Meanwhile Aquileia fell intothe hands of Attila, who sacked it
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Grado : A campiello. first, then gave it to the flames. No-thing but ruins remained where theold city had been. The fugitives made daring bytheir desperation, began the fightagainst new enemies, the waters, thesoil and the air, and they were con-querors after intense toil. They defined and set boundsto the banks of the channels by meansof wooden stakes, they raised thelevels and consolidated the surfaceswith mud dug from the channels,they utilised the water ways by wi-dening and straightening them, theyregulated the course of the risingwaters, in order to prevent destruc-tion of their improvement schemes,and employed these currents of waterfor transport. At last they workedin tree trunks, slabs, canes, and co-vered up with roots the first defencesagainst the storms. So grew up theearliest houses, more like sheds, butfar from any dangers of enemies. Thefugitives were prepared to encounter,after a primitive fashion, all the ter-rible perils of nature, so long as theywere finally freed f

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