Complex sentence: In 1574 Henry III of France attended a game of "bridge fighting"--put on in his honor during a visit to Venice; the king is recorded as saying: "Too small to be a real war and too cruel to be a game".
Split into simpler sentences: In 1574 Henry III of France attended a game of "bridge fighting"--put on in his honor during a visit to Venice. The king is recorded as saying: "Too small to be a real war and too cruel to be a game".