Report Having been ambassador in the legation of France on behalf of Your Serenity for some forty months, I know my duty, according to the most laudable custom of this Most Serene Dominion, is not to give an account of all my actions during that legation, because day by day I have striven to keep Your Lordships advised of those matters that have seemed to me worthy of your notice: and therefore I shall not say a word about them, which will also be the cause of that brevity I desire.
The lesson of today: internal cohesion, disciplined administration, and credible intelligence mattered more than raw population or territory.
💯 The Venetian government probably had the highest "Wins Above Replacement" of anyone in history