f Venice.

62. _Monsignor._ A title conferred upon prelates in the Roman Catholic
church. This Monsignor is the chief personage in Part III, or _Night_.

88. _Martagon._ A kind of lily with light purplish flowers. The common
name is Turk's Cap. Perhaps that suggested to Browning his comparison to
the round bunch of flesh on the head of a Turk bird, or turkey.

131. _Possagno church._ Designed by Canova, who was born at Possagno, an
obscure village near Asolo.

181. _The Dome._ The Duomo, or Cathedral, in the center of the town. The
palace of the Bishop's brother is close by.

MORNING

28. _St. Mark's._ There is an extensive view from Asolo. Venice, with
its cupolas and steeples, is seen to the east. Ottima detects the belfry
of the Church of St. Mark. The towns of Vicenza and Padua are also
discernible.

59. _The Capuchin._ A branch of the Franciscan order of monks. Their
habit is brown.

170. _Campanula chalice._ The flower of any one of a large genus of
flowers with bell-shaped corollas.

INTERLUDE I

27. _El canibus nostris._ Virgil, _Eclogues_ iii, 67. "_Notior ut jam
sit canibus non Delia nostris_"--"So that now not Delia's self is more
familiar to our dogs." The boy Giovacchino of whose poetry they are
making fun evidently had ideals not in harmony with the ways of these
Venetian art students. These "dissolute, brutalized, heartless
bunglers," as Jules calls them, attack with quick, clever, merciless
tongues whatever savors of idealism, aspiration, purity. Their revenge
for the scornful superiority manifested towards them by Jules is to
secure, by a well-managed trick, a marriage between him and a paid
model.

86. _Canova's gallery._ Possagno was the birthplace of the sculptor
Canova, and the circular church there was designed by him. In the
gallery at Possagno is his Psyche (_Psiche-fanciulla_, or Psyche the
young girl); his Pieta (the mother with the dead Christ in her arms) is
in the church.

111. _Malamocco._ A little town on an island near Venice.

111. _Alciphron._ A Greek writer (about 200 A. D.) of fictitious letters
famous for the purity of their style and for the knowledge they give of
Greek social customs.

115. _Lire._ Plural of lira, an Italian coin equal to 18.6 cents in our
money.

117. _A scented letter._ Forged letters have represented this fourteen
year old, ignorant model as delicate, shy, reserved, intellectually
alert, with lofty poetic and artistic ideals.

117. _Tydeus