From the Book - First edition.
"Send me a list of hte picture,s statues, cabinets and curiosities"
Venice need not "fear that the "French Armies would not fully lrespect its neutrality"
"Master Paolo will...not spare any expense fo the finest ultramarine"
"This museum must demonstrate the nation's great riches"
"Draw as much as you can from Venetian teritory"
"The Pope will deliver...one hundred paintings, busts, vases of statues"
"I'm on a path a thousand times more glorious"
"The repubic of Venice will surrender...twenty paintings"
"In the Church of St. George...The wedding feast at Cana"
"We...have received from citizen Pietro Edwards"
The most secure way would be to send them on ;a figate, with 32 cannons"
"The seam...will be unstitched"
"The Revolution...is finished"
"You enter a gallery...such a gallery. But such a gallery!!"
"The transperency of air...place[s] Gros beside Tintoretto and Paul Veronese"
"This beautiful work reminds us of the picture by Paul Veronese"
"I succeeded...in picking most of the pieces of small size and great value"
"The only thing to do is to burn them!"
"This foreboding painting...seems to summon the eye...from all directions"
"The masterpieces of the arts now belong to us"
"We are at last beginning to drag forth from this great cavern of stolen goods the precious objects of art"
