the Ca' Grimani.-See VASARI.

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 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 exstence; 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.

Note 30, page 47, col. 2.

That child of fun and frolic, Arlecchino.

A pleasant instance of his wit and agility was exhibited some years ago on the stage at Venice.

"The stutterer was in an agony; the word was inexorable. It was to no purpose that Harlequin suggested another and another. At length, in a fit of despair, he pitched his head full in the dying man's stomach, and the word bolted out of his mouth to the most distant part of the house "-See MOORE'S View of Society in Italy.

Note 31, page 47, col. 2.

A vast Metropolis.

"I love," says a late traveller, "to contemplate, as

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 the admiration of other countries as of his own. Writer, whose poetical talents command as much

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.

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 victoria 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.

And lo, the madness of the Carnival.

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 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

4

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.

It was St. Mary's Eve.

A Frenchman of high rank, who had been robbed at Venice, and had complained in conversation of the 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. "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 sus-
pect 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 54, page 51, col. 1.

Such splendor, or such beauty.

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

covo con tutta la chieresia."-SANUTO.

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 froin 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.

Note 51, page 50, col. 2.

-and he sung,

As in the time when Venice was herself.

Note 59, page 52, col. 1.

And through the city in a stately barge.

"Le quali con trionfo si conducessero sopra una piatta

Goldoni, describing his excursion with the Pas- pe 'canali di Venezia con suoni e canti."-SANUTO.

salacqua, has left us a lively picture of this class of

men.

Note 60, page 52, col. 1.

the Rialto.

We were no sooner in the middle of that great An English abbreviation. Rialto is the name of lagoon which encircies the City, than our discreet the island from which the bridge is called; and the gondolier drew the curtain behind us, and let us float Venetians say il ponte di Rialto, as we say Westat the will of the waves.-At length night came on, minster-bridge. and we could not tell where we were. " What is the

In that island is the Exchange; and I have often

The State-Inquisitors. For an account of their close of the thirteenth century, it is related that authority, see page 52.