I “A Galley full of demons” is by no means an inapt title for the fourteenth century in Venice! The legend of “_Il Pescatore e l’Anello_” is as well-known as any of the stories in the boudoir of the “Queen of the Adriatic,” moreover, in a strangely weird and prophetic way, it epitomises the storm and calm of the new century’s course from start to finish. “An old boatman, caught in the raging flood of February the twenty-fifth, in the year 1340,--when all Venice was three feet under water,--and hardly making St Mark…