ABSTRACT
The editor and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce the articles listed below: Professor Carlo M. Cipolla for 'The Economic Decline of Italy' (translated by Janet Pullan from 'I1 declino economico dell'Italia7 in Storia dell' economia italiana, published by Boringhieri, Turin, 195 9); Professor Frederic C. Lane for 'Venetian Shipping during the Commercial Revolution' (American Historical Review, Vol. XXXVIII, 1933), and 'The Mediterranean Spice Trade: Further Evidence of its Revival in the Sixteenth Century' (American HistoricalReview, Vol. XLV, I 940); Dr B. S. Pullan for 'Wage-Earners and the Venetian Economy I 5 j o1630' (The Economic History Review, Vol. XVI, 1964); Professor Ruggiero Romano for 'Economic Aspects of the Construction of Warships in Venice in the Sixteenth Century' (translated by Mrs P. Larmar from 'Aspetti economici degli armamenti navali Veneziani', Rivista Storica Italians, Vol. LXVI, I 9 j 4) ; Professor Domenico Sella for 'The Rise and Fall of the Venetian Woollen Industry' (translated by the author, from 'Les mouvements longs de l'industrie lainikre 5 Venise aux XVIkme et XVIIkme sikcles', Annales: ~conomies, Sociitbs, Civilisations, Vol. XII, 19j7), and 'Crisis and Transformation in Venetian Trade' (translated by the author, from 'I1 declino dell'emporio realtino', La civilth Venexiana nell' etd barocca, published by G. C. Sansoni, 1919); Dr Stuart Woolf for 'Venice and the Terraferma: Problems of the Change from Commercial to Landed Activities' (Bollettino dell'Istitnto di Storia del'la Societd e dell0 Stato Venexiano, Vol. IV, I 962).
