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"Aye; it is verily true," Madama de Thénouris said quietly "as Ecciva hath told it; for a report hath come from Messer Mocenigo, himself. But that is like Carlotta, who leaveth no imagining of her brain untried. She hath even the courage to urge her near connection with Venice through her brother Janus the King, by his marriage with Caterina Veneta!"
Gomez asserts of the first of these substances, that women who much indulge in it are thereby rendered more salacious, and that, for this reason, Venus is said to have arisen from the sea; whence the epigram: "Unde tot in Veneta scortorum millia cur sunt? In promptu causa est. Venus orta mari." "In Venice why so many punks abound?
Yet now, the Daughter of the Republic, Caterina Veneta, being left by the Will of Janus Queen of Cyprus, Venice must first uphold the rights of Caterina, and might show her Eccellenza, the Princess Carlotta, no favor that could prejudice the sovereignty of the Queen." "And then?" "And then came further pleading from Carlotta, with a new tissue of reasons.
Not caring for the splendor of her equipage, though the Doge himself was her escort not deceived by the pageant of welcome that Venice offered, Caterina very beautiful and pale and still, with the sense of the motive power broken within her passed up the long length of the Canal Grande by the side of the Serenissimo, receiving the glad homage of the people of Venice. "Caterina Veneta!
The ensigns of the commune and the keys of the city were brought in procession to the representative of the Republic, and the standard of S. Mark was hoisted on the cathedral. The oath of loyalty and devotion to the "Serenissima" was taken by Paolo Bucchia, count, Marius Bisanti and Luca Drago, judges, and the forty members of the greater council. The territory was then called Albania Veneta.
For letters showing the craven submission of Philip III. of Spain at this time, see Cornet, Paolo V. e la Republica Veneta, Vienna, 1859, p. 285. There was little indeed to encourage the Venetians to resist; for, while the interests of other European powers were largely the same as theirs, current political intrigues seemed likely to bring Spain and even France into a league with the Vatican.
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