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 uff; 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 prob- | ably 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 acWriter, whose poetical talents command as much count; but he is now universally known through a 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.

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, al

luding, 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 required any credit or used any bills of exchange, but paid for everything in ready money, and lived respectably, though not splendidly.

"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 bom. 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 The young Bianca found her father's door. Venetian perceived that he had given offence, and 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.

E'l costume era, che tutte le novizzie con tutta la dote loro venissero alla detta Chiesa, dov'era il vescovo 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. "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. Gio vanni 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. Goldoni, describing his excursion with the Passalacqua, has left us a lively picture of this class of

men.

We were no sooner in the middle of that great lagoon which encircles the City, than our discreet gondolier drew the curtain behind us, and let us float at the will of the waves.-At length night came on, and we could not tell where we were. What is the

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

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 he says,

Signor Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto you have rated me"Andiamo a Rialto"-" L'ora di Rialto"-were on every tongue; and continue so to the present day, as we may conclude from the comedies of Goldoni, and particularly from his Mercanti.

There is a place adjoining, called Rialto Nuovo; and so called, according to Sansovino, "perche fu fabbricato dopo il vecchio."

Note 61, page 52, col. 1.

Twenty are sitting as in judgment there. The Council of Ten and the Giunta, "nel quale," says Sanuto, "fu messer lo doge." The Giunta at the first examination consisted of ten Patricians, at the last of twenty.

Note 62, page 52, col. 2.

that maid, at once the fairest, noblest.

She was a Contarini; a name coeval with the Re

"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 Republic 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 public, and illustrated by eight Doges. On the oc-Man no less eminent for his learning than his genius casion of their marriage, the Bucentaur came out in Ugo Foscolo.

Note 72, page 54, col. 2.
-In its chain it hangs.

Affirming itself to be the very bucket which Tas

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 on 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 and were attended by thirty thousand people. years ago. If true, it is in wonderful preservation.

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

Note 65, page 53, col. 2.

It found him on his knees before the altar.

He was at mass.--SANUTO.

Note 66, page 54, col. 1.

And in his ledger-book.

A remarkable instance, among others in the annals of Venice, that her princes were merchants.

Note 67, page 54, col. 1.

And from that hour have kindred spirits flock'd.
I visited once more, says Alfieri, the tomb of our
master in love, the divine Petrarch; and there, as at
Ravenna, consecrated a day to meditation and verse.

Note 68, page 54, col. 1.

Its vineyards of such great and old renown. The Côte Rotie, the Hermitage, etc.

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 life

time.

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.

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.

Sit thee down awhile;

Note 82, page 57, col. 1.

On that thrice-hallow'd day.

The day of All Souls. Il di de' Morti.

Note 83, page 57, col. 1.

Note 89, page 57, col. 2.

From the deep silence that his questions drew.

It was given out that they had died of a contagious fever; and funeral orations were publicly pronounced in their honor.

Note 90, page 57, col. 2.
Cimabue.

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 Perhaps there is nothing in language more affect-posso!" He never indeed spoke of it but with ading than his last testament. It is addressed "To God, the Deliverer," and was found steeped in his blood.

It must be known-the writing on the wall.
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.

Note 84, page 57, col. 1.

That Cosmo.

The first Grand Duke.

Note 85, page 57, col. 1.

Is told, and by an honest Chronicler.

The President De Thou. Alfieri has written a tragedy on the subject; if it may be said so, when he has altered so entirely the story and the characters.

Note 86, page 57, col. 1.

-the disconsolate Mother.

Of the children that survived her, one fell by a

miration; 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.

Like thee I will not build one. Better than thee I cannot.

"Tis his own sketch-he drew it from himself.

Note 105, page 58, col. 2.
Down by the City of Hermits.

Il Sagro Eremo.

Note 106, page 58, col. 2.

Hands, clad in gloves of steel, held up imploring.

It was in this manner that the first Sforza went down, when he perished in the Pescara.

Note 107, page 58, col. 2.

Oft, as that great Artist saw.

What follows is a description of the Cartoon of Pisa.
Note 108, page 59, col. 1.

And lo, an atom on that dangerous sea.

Petrarch, as we learn from himself, was on his way to Incisa; whither his mother was retiring. He was seven months old at the time.

Note 109, page 59, col. 1.

Reclined beside thee.

O ego quantus eram, gelidi cum stratus ad Arni
Murmura, etc.
Epitaphium Damonis.

Note 110, page 59, col. 1.

Towerless.

There were the "Nobili di Torre" and the "No

bili di Loggia."

Note 111, page 59, col. 2.

At the bridge-foot.

Giovanni Buondelmonte was on the point of mar

See a very interesting letter from Machiavel toying an Amidei, when a widow of the Donati family made him break his engagement in the manner here Francesco Vettori, dated the 10th of December, 1513. described.

He was buried, with all honor, in the church of the Santa Croce.

Note 102, page 58, col. 2.

His cottage (justly was it call'd The Jewel). Il Giojello.

Note 103, page 58, col. 2.

There, unseen.

The Amidei washed away the affront with his blood, attacking him, says Villani, at the foot of the Ponte Vecchio; and hence the wars of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

O Buondelmonte, quanto mal fuggisti
Le nozze sue, per gli altrui conforti!

Note 112, page 59, col. 2.

Dante.

It had been well, hadst thou slept on, Imelda. The story is Bolognese, and is told by Cherubino Ghiradacci in his history of Bologna. Her lover was of the Guelphic party, her brothers of the Ghibelline; and no sooner was this act of violence made known,

than an enmity, hitherto but half-suppressed, broke out into open war. The Great Place was a scene of battle and bloodshed for forty successive days; nor was a reconciliation accomplished till six years afterwards, when the families and their adherents met there once again, and exchanged the kiss of peace before the Cardinal Legate; as the rival families of Florence had already done in the Place of S. Maria "Novella. Every house on the occasion was hung with Milton went to Italy in 1638. There it was," says he," that I found and visited the famous Galileo, tapestry and garlands of flowers. grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." "Old and blind," he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, became blind in December, 1637. Milton, as we learn from the date of Sir Henry Wotton's letter to him, had not left England on the 18th of April following-See TIRABOSCHI, and WOTTON's Remains.