, or rather joins, the palace of the Doge to the
prison of the state." Compare _The Two Foscari_, act iv. sc. 1--

"In Venice '_but_'s' a traitor.
But me no '_buts_,' unless you would pass o'er
The Bridge which few repass."

This, however, is an anachronism. The Bridge of Sighs was built by
Antonio da Ponte, in 1597, more than a century after the death of
Francesco Foscari. "It is," says Mr. Ruskin, "a work of no merit and of
a late period, owing the interest it possesses chiefly to its pretty
name, and to the ignorant sentimentalism of Byron" (_Stones of Venice_,
1853, ii. 304; in. 359).]

[377] [Compare _Mysteries of Udolpho_, by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, 1794, ii.
35, 36--

"Its terraces crowned with airy yet majestic fabrics ... appeared as if
they had been called up from the Ocean by the wand of an enchanter."]

[lb] {328} ----_throned on her Seventy Isles_.--[MS. M. altern. reading,
D.]

[378] Sabellicus, describing the appearance of Venice, has made use of
the above image, which would not be poetical were it not true.--"Quo fit
ut qui superne [ex specula aliqua eminentiore] urbem contempletur,
turritam telluris imaginem medio Oceano figuratam se putet inspicere."
[_De Venetae Urbis situ Narratio_, lib. i. _Ital. Ill. Script._, 1600, p.
4. Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus (1436-1506) wrote, _inter alia_, a
_History of Venice_, published in folio in 1487, and _Rhapsodiae
Historiarum Enneades, a condito mundo, usque ad_ A.C. 1504. His
description of Venice (_vide supra_) was published after his death in
1527. Hofmann does not give him a good character: "Obiit A.C. 1506,
turpi morbo confectus, aetat. 70, relicto filio notho." But his [Greek:
Au)toepita/phion] implies that he was satisfied with himself.

"Quem non res hominum, non omnis ceperat aetas,
Scribentem capit haec Coccion urna brevis."

Cybele (sometimes written Cybelle and Cyb[=e]le), the "mother of the
Goddesses," was represented as wearing a mural crown--"coronamque
turritam gestare dicitur" (Albricus Phil., _De Imag. Deor._, xii.).
Venice with her tiara of proud towers is the earth-goddess Cybele,
having "suffered a sea-change."]

[lc] {329} _From spoils of many nations and the East_.--[MS. M., D.
erased.]

[379] ["Gems wrought into drinking-vessels, among which the least
precious were framed of turquoise, jasper, or amethyst ... unnumbered
jacinths, emeralds, sapphires, chrysolites, and topazes, and, lastly,