CHAPTER XXVII.

VENICE, BOLOGNA, FLORENCE, AND PISA.

The Queen of the Adriatic.--The Fallen Campanile.--Fra Paolo Sarpi, the Greatest of the Venetians.--Busy Bologna.--The Leaning Towers.--The Colonnades.--The Oldest University.--Galvani and his Frog.--The Flower of Fair Cities.--Art Treasures of Florence.--The Reformer Before the Reformation.--Martyrdom of Savonarola.--Pisa's Four Monuments, 245