The jealousies of the commercial republics of Italy were daily waxing greater.

At that time, and for long afterwards, great envy and jealousy raged between the three great commercial republics, Venice, Genoa, and Pisa.

I enumerated the kingdoms of Damascus and Idumea, of Jerusalem and Samaria, the warlike states of the Philistines, and the commercial republics of Phoenicia.

Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other.