DAILYCALLER (Scott Morefield) - SCOTT MOREFIELD: A City Built By Giants Is Now Staffed By Strangers
One of the most damnable lies in humanity
Before beginning our eastern Mediterranean cruise last month, our family spent a few days exploring Venice, Italy, one of history’s most magnificent cities. Imagine deciding to build a full-on medieval city in a swamp on top of wooden stakes driven into the waterbed, then turning it into the most consequential and powerful Republic in southern Europe for more than a thousand years, and you might begin to understand just how remarkable the people in that era, and that area, were. We stood in St. Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), where Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa bent the knee to Pope Alexander III to end a long-running conflict between the papacy and the empire in 1177 AD, where the Doge, an elected official who served for…Open