LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Cloister of the Dominican Monastery . . .231 Sketch Map of the Territories of the Ragusan Republic ....... facing 240 The Orlando Column......249 Bird’s-eye View of Ragusa and the Neighbourhood ........ facing 263 (From an Old Map, 1670) Sketch Map of the Environs of Ragusa . . facing 272 Forte San Lorenzo.......289 Garden near Ragusa . ......299 Isola di Mezzo ........ 313 Courtyard of the Rector’s Palace .... 325 Mostar, in the Herzegovina ..... 334 “ ^Esculapius ” Capital, Rector’s Palace . . . 340 Sculptured Impost, Rector’s Palace .... 345 Sculptured Bracket, Rector’s Palace . . . 349 Church of the Confraternity of the Rosary. . 355 Triptych by Niccolò Ragusei in the Dominican Monastery ....... facing 363 Giovanni Gondola ...... facing 375 (From the Galleria di Ragusei I/lusiri) Torre Menze and the Walls.....389 Terrace of the Ville Bravacic, near Ragusa . . 405 Map of Dalmatia, Bosnia, and the Herzegovina facing 417 Map of the Balkan Peninsula .... facing 418