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Note 14, page 44, col. 2.

speaking, escaped observation. If I cannot supply the deficiency, I will not follow their example; and hap

Mine but for those, who, like Jean Jacques, delight.

"J'aime beaucoup ce tournoiement, pourvu que je Py should I be, if by an intermixture of verse and sois en sûreté."-Les Confessions, l. iv.

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Mastino de la Scala, the Lord of Verona. Cortusio, the ambassador and historian, saw him so surrounded.-L. 6.

prose, of prose illustrating the verse, and verse embellishing the prose, I could furnish my countrymen on their travels with a pocket-companion.

Note 23, page 46, col. 2.

In this neglected mirror.

As this is the only instance, with which I am acquainted, of a Ghost in Italy since Brutus sat in his tent, I give it as I received it; though in the catastrophe I have been anticipated by a distinguished writer of the present day.

It was first mentioned to me by a friend, as we were crossing the Apennines together.

Note 24, page 47, col. 1.

She was wall'd up within the Castle-wall. Murato was a technical word for this punishment in Italy.

Note 25, page 47, col. 1.

-Issuing forth.

An old huntsman of the family met her in the haze
of the morning, and never went out again.
She is still known by the name of Madonna Bianca.
Note 26, page 47, col. 1.

This house had been always open to the unfortuStill glowing with the richest hues of art. nate. In the days of Can Grande, all were welcome; Several were painted by Giorgione and Titian; as, Poets, Philosophers, Artists, Warriors. Each had his for instance, those of the Fondaco de Tedeschi and apartment, each a separate table; and at the hour of the Ca' Grimani.-See VASARI. dinner, musicians and jesters went from room to room. Dante, as we learn from himself, found an asylum there.

Lo primo tuo rifugio, e'l primo ostello Sarà la cortesia del gran Lombardo, Che'n su la scala porta il santo uccelle. Their tombs in the public street carry us back into the times of barbarous virtue; nor less so do those of the Carrara Princes at Padua, though less singular and striking in themselves. Francis Carrara, the Elder, used often to visit Petrarch in his small house at Arqua, and followed him on foot to his grave. Note 20, page 46, col. 1.

And shall I sup where Juliet at the Masque. The old Palace of the Cappalletti, with its uncouth balcony and irregular windows, is still standing in a lane near the market-place; and what Englishman can behold it with indifference?

When we enter Verona, we forget ourselves, and are almost inclined to say with Dante,

Vieni a veder Montecchi, e Cappalletti.

Note 21, page 46, col. 1.
Such questions hourly do I ask myself.

It has been observed that in Italy the memory sees more than the eye. Scarcely a stone is turned up that has not some historical association, ancient or modern; that may not be said to have gold under it,

Note 22, page 46, col. 1.

Twice hast thou lived already;

Twice shone among the nations of the world. All our travellers, from Addison downward, have diligently explored the monuments of her former existence; while those of her latter have, comparatively

Note 27, page 47, col. 1.

-the tower of Ezzelin

Now an Observatory. On the wall there is a long inscription: "Piis carcerem adspergite lacrymis," etc. Ezzelino is seen by Dante in the river of blood.Inferno, xii.

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Note 40, page 49, col. 2.

Down which the grizzly head of old Faliero

Roll'd from the block.

I float along, that multitude of palaces and churches," in the records of the Republic; and his house has, which are congregated and pressed as on a vast raft." from that time to this, been called La Corte del Mil-"And who," says anothor, " can forget his walk lioni," the house of the rich man, the millionnaire. through the Merceria, where the nightingales give It is on the canal of S. Giovanni Chrisostomo; and, you their melody from shop to shop, so that, shutting as long as he lived, was much resorted to by the your eyes, you would think yourself in some forest- curious and the learned. glade, when indeed you are all the while in the middle of the sea? Who can forget his prospect from the great tower, which once, when gilt, and when the sun struck upon it, was to be descried by ships afar off; or his visit to St. Mark's church, where you see nothing, tread on nothing, but what is precious; the floor all agate, jasper; the roof mosaic; the aisle hung with the banners of the subject cities; the front and its five domes affecting you as the work of some unknown people? Yet all this will presently pass away; the waters will close over it; and they, that come, row about in vain to determine exactly where it stood."

Note 32, page 47, col. 2.
Ere yet the Cafila came.-

A Caravan.

Note 33, page 48, col. 2.
Playing at Mora.

A national game of great antiquity, and most probably the "micare digitis" of the Romans.

Note 34, page 48, col. 2.

-twelve Procurators.

The procuratorship of St. Mark was the second dignity in the Republic.

Note 35, page 49, col. 1.

The brass is gone, the porphyry remains.
They were placed in the floor as memorials. The
brass was engraven with the words addressed by the
Pope to the Emperor, "Super aspidem," etc.

Note 36, page 49, col. 1.

Of the proud Pontiff

Alexander III. He fled in disguise to Venice, and is said to have passed the first night on the steps of San Salvatore. The entrance is from the Merceria, near the foot of the Rialto; and it is thus recorded, under his escutcheon, in a small tablet at the door: Alexandro III. Pont. Max. pernoctanti.

Note 37, page 49, col. 1.

-resounding with their feet.

Of him and his conspiracy I had given a brief ac count; but he is now universally known through a Writer, whose poetical talents command as much the admiration of other countries as of his own. Note 41, page 49, col. 2.

A short inscription on the Doge's chair
Led to another on the wall yet shorter.
Marino Faliero dalla bella moglie: altri la gode ed
egli la mantiene.

Locus Marini Faletri, decapitati pro criminibus.

Note 42, page 49, col. 2.
Carmagnola.

"Il Conte, entrando in prigione, disse: Vedo bene chi'o son morto, e trasse un gran sospiro."-Sanuto.

Note 43, page 49, col. 2.

And bore away to the canal Orfano.
A deep channel behind the island of S. Giorgo
Maggiore.

Note 44, page 50, col. 1.

"Who were the Six we supp'd with yesternight ?" An allusion to the Supper in Candide.-C. xxvi.

Note 45, page 50, col. 1.
"Who answer'd me just now?"

See Schiller's Ghost-seer.-C. i.

Note 46, page 50, col. 1.

"But who stands there, alone among them all?" See the history of Bragadino, the Alchymist, as related by Daru.-Hist. de Venise, c. 28.

A person yet more extraordinary is said to have appeared there in 1687.

"Those, who have experienced the advantages which all strangers enjoy in that City, will not be surprised that one who went by the name of Signor Gualdi was admitted into the best company, though none knew who or what he was. He remained there some months; and three things were remarked con

See Petrarch's description of them, and of the tour-cerning him-that he had a small but inestimable nament.-Rer. Senil. 1. 4, ep. 2.

Note 38, page 49, col. 1.

--some from merry England. "Recenti victoriâ exultantes," says Petrarch, alluding, no doubt, to the favorable issue of the war in France. This festival began on the 4th of August,

1364.

Note 39, page 49, col. 1.

collection of pictures, which he readily showed to any
body-that he spoke on every subject with such a
mastery as astonished all who heard him-and that
he never wrote or received any letter, never re-
quired any credit or used any bills of exchange, but
spectably, though not splendidly.
paid for everything in ready money, and lived re-

"This gentleman being one day at the coffee-house, a Venetian nobleman, who was an excellent judge And lo, the madness of the Carnival. of pictures, and who had heard of Signor Gualdi's Among those the most followed, there was always collection, expressed a desire to see them; and his a mask in a magnificent habit, relating marvellous request was instantly granted. After contemplating adventures and calling himself Messer Marco Mil- and admiring them for some time, he happened to lioni. Millioni was the name given by his fellow-cast his eyes over the chamber-door, where hung a citizens in his life-time to the great traveller, Marco portrait of the Stranger. The Venetian looked upon Polo. "I have seen him so described," says Ramusio, it, and then upon him. This is your portrait, Sir,'

Note 52, page 51, col. 1.

said he to Signor Gualdi. The other made no answer hour?" said I to the gondolier. "I cannot guess, Sir; but by a low bow. Yet you look,' he continued, but, if I am not mistaken, it is the lover's hour."like a man of fifty; and I know this picture to be "Let us go home," I replied; and he turned the prow of the hand of Titian, who has been dead one hun- homeward, singing, as he rowed, the twenty-sixth dred and thirty years. How is this possible?' 'It is strophe of the sixteenth canto of the Jerusalem Denot easy,' said Signor Gualdi gravely, to know all livered. things that are possible; but there is certainly no crime in my being like a picture of Titian's.' The Venetian perceived that he had given offence, and The young Bianca found her father's door. took his leave. Bianca Capello. It had been shut by a baker's boy, "In the evening he could not forbear mentioning as he passed by, at day-break; and in her despair she what had passed to some of his friends, who resolved fled with her lover to Florence, where he fell by asto satisfy themselves the next day by seeing the pic-sassination. Her beauty, and her love-adventure as ture. For this purpose they went to the coffee-house here related, her marriage afterwards with the Grand about the time that Signor Gualdi was accustomed Duke, and that fatal banquet at which they were both to come there; and, not meeting with him, inquired poisoned by the Cardinal, his brother, have rendered at his lodgings, where they learned that he had set her history a romance. The Capello Palace is on out an hour before for Vienna. This affair made a the Canalé di Canonico; and the postern-door, la great stir at the time." porta di strada, is still on its hinges. It opens into one of those narrow alleys so numerous at Venice. Note 53, page 51, col. 1.

Note 47, page 50, col. 1.

All eye, all ear, nowhere and everywhere.

A Frenchman of high rank, who had been robbed at Venice, and had complained in conversation of the

It was St. Mary's Eve.

Note 54, page 51, col. 1.

Such splendor, or such beauty.

dote loro venissero alla detta Chiesa, dov'era il ves"E'l costume era, che tutte le novizzie con tutta la Icovo con tutta la chieresia."-SANUTO.

This circumstance took place at Venice on the first negligence of the Police, was on his way back to of February, the eve of the feast of the Purification the Terra Firma, when his gondola stopped suddenly of the Virgin, A. D. 944, Pietro Candiano, Doge. in the midst of the waves. He inquired the reason; and his gondoliers pointed to a boat with a red flag, that had just made them a signal. It arrived; and he was called on board. 66 You are the Prince de Craon? Were you not robbed on Friday evening? I was. Of what?-Of five hundred ducats.-And where were they?—In a green purse.-Do you suspect any body?—I do, a servant.-Would you know him again?-Certainly." The Interrogator with his foot turned aside an old cloak that lay there; and the Prince beheld his purse in the hand of a dead man. "Take it; and remember that none set their feet again in a country where they have presumed to doubt the wisdom of the government."

Note 48, page 50, col. 2.

-his lay of love.

La Biondina in Gondoletta.

Note 49, page 50, col. 2.

Those Porches.

In the Piazzetta. "C'était sous les portiques de Saint-Marc que les patriciens se réunissaient tous les jours. Le nom de cette promenade indiquait sa destination; on l'appellait il Broglio."-DARU.

Note 50, page 50, col. 2.

Then in close converse.

Note 55, page 51, col. 1.

Her veil, transparent as the gossamer. Among the Habiti Antichi, in that admirable book of wood-cuts ascribed to Titian (A. D. 1590), there is one entitled Sposa Venetiana a Castello. It was taken from an old painting in the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista, and by the Writer is believed to represent one of the Brides here described.

Note 56, page 51, col. 2.

That venerable pile on the sea-brink.
San Pietro di Castello, the Patriarchal church of
Venice.

Note 57, page 51, col. 2.

Well are they known, the galliot and the galley. "Una galera e una galeotta."-SANUTO.

Note 58, page 52, col. 1.

Laid at his feet.

They were to be seen in the treasury of St. Mark

I am indebted for this thought to some unpublished very lately. travels by the author of Vathek.

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Note 59, page 52, col. 1.

And through the city in a stately barge. "Le quali con trionfo si conducessero sopra una piatta pe 'canali di Venezia con suoni e canti."-SANUTO.

Note 60, page 52, col. 1.

-the Rialto.

An English abbreviation. Rialto is the name of the island from which the bridge is called; and the Venetians say il ponte di Rialto, as we say Westminster-bridge.

In that island is the Exchange; and I have often

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walked there as on classic ground. In the days of Antonio and Bassanio it was second to none. "I sottoportichi," says Sansovino, writing in 1580, "sono ogni giorno frequentati da i mercatanti Fiorentini, Genovesi, Milanesi, Spagnuoli, Turchi, e d'altre nationi diverse del mondo, i quali vi concorrono in tanta copia, che questa piazza è annoverata fra le prime dell' universo." It was there that the Christian held discourse with the Jew; and Shylock refers to it, when

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Note 62, page 52, col. 2.

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"I have built, among the Euganean hills, a small house decent and proper; in which I hope to pass the rest of my days, thinking always of my dead or absent friends."

When the Venetians overran the country, Petrarch prepared for flight. "Write your name over your door," said one of his friends, "and you will be safe." "I am not so sure of that," replied Petrarch, and fled with his books to Padua.

His books he left to the Republie of Venice; but they exist no longer. His legacy to Francis Carrara, a Madonna painted by Giotto, is still preserved in the cathedral of Padua.

Note 71, page 54, col. 2.

He cultured all that could refine, exalt.

See an Essay on his Character, lately written by a Man no less eminent for his learning than his genius Ugo Foscolo.

Note 72, page 54, col. 2.

that maid, at once the fairest, noblest. She was a Contarini; a name coeval with the Republic, and illustrated by eight Doges. On the occasion of their marriage, the Bucentaur came out in its splendor; and a bridge of boats was thrown across the Canal Grandé for the Bridegroom and his retinue of three hundred horse. Sanuto dwells with pleasure Affirming itself to be the very bucket which Tason the costliness of the dresses and the magnificence of the processions by land and water. The tourna-soni in his mock heroics has celebrated as the cause ments in the Place of St. Mark lasted three days, of war between Bologna and Modena five hundred years ago. If true, it is in wonderful preservation. and were attended by thirty thousand people.

Note 63, page 53, col. 1.

I have transgress'd, offended, wilfully.

It was a high crime to solicit the intercession of any Foreign Prince.

Note 64, page 53, col. 2.

-the Invisible Three.

-In its chain it hangs.

Note 73, page 54, col. 2.
Done by Zampieri-

Commonly called Domenichino.

Note 74, page 56, col. 2.

And what a glorious lustre did it shed.
Among other instances of her ascendency at the

The State-Inquisitors. For an account of their close of the thirteenth century, it is related that

authority, see page 52.

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Florence saw twelve of her citizens assembled at the Court of Boniface the Eighth, as Ambassadors from different parts of Europe and Asia. Their names are mentioned in Toscana Illustrata.

Note 75, page 56, col. 2.

In this chapel wrought.

A chapel of the Holy Virgin in the church of the Carmelites. It is adorned with his paintings, and all the great artists of Florence studied there: Lionardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Andrea del Sarto, Michael Angelo, Raphael, etc.

He had no stone, no inscription, says one of his biographers, for he was thought little of in his lifetime.

Se alcun cercasse il marmo, o il nome mio, La Chiesa è il marmo, una cappella è il nome. It was there that Michael Angelo received the blow in his face.-See VASARI and CELLINI. 91

A tradition.

Note 76, page 56, col. 2. Would Dante sit conversing.

Note 77, page 56, col. 2.

Hadst plagued him sore, and carefully requiting. After this line, read as follows:

Such as condemn'd his mortal part to fire:
Many a transgressor sent to his account,
Long ere in Florence number'd with the dead;
The body still as full of life and stir

At home, abroad; still and as oft inclined
To eat, drink, sleep; still clad as others were,
And at noon-day, where men were wont to meet,
Met as continually; when the soul went,
Relinquish'd to a demon, and by him

(So says the Bard, and who can read and doubt?)
Dwelt in and govern'd.

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He was the father of modern painting, and the master of Giotto, whose talent he discovered in the way here alluded to.

“Cimabue stood still, and, having considered the boy and his work, he asked him, if he would go and live with him at Florence? To which the boy answered that, if his father was willing, he would go with all his heart."—VASARI.

Of Cimabue little now remains at Florence, except his celebrated Madonna, larger than the life, in Santa Maria Novella. It was painted, according to Vasari, in a garden near Porta S. Piero, and, when finished, was carried to the church in solemn procession with trumpets before it. The garden lay without the walls; and such was the rejoicing there on the occasion, that the suburb received the name of Borgo Allegri, a name it still bears, though now a part of the city.

Note 91, page 57, col. 2.

Beautiful Florence.

It is somewhere mentioned that Michael Angelo, when he set out from Florence to build the dome of St. Peter's, turned his horse round in the road to contemplate once more that of the cathedral, as it rose in the grey of the morning from among the pines and cypresses of the city, and that he said after a pause, "Come te non voglio! Meglio di te non posso!" He never indeed spoke of it but with admiration; and if we may believe tradition, his tomb by his own desire was to be so placed in the Santa Croce as that from it might be seen, when the doors of the church stood open, that noble work of Bruneleschi.

Note 92, page 57, col. 2.

-that church among the rest. Santa Maria Novella. For its grace and beauty it was called by Michael Angelo "La Sposa."

Note 93, page 57, col. 2.

Those who assembled there at matin-prayers.

In the year of the Great Plague.

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