ive and spirited; the latter occurs at
Verona only, but the former at Venice also. 5 _d_ occurs in Venice, but
is very rare; and 5 _e_ I found only once, on the narrow canal close to
the entrance door of the Hotel Danieli. It was partly walled up, but I
obtained leave to take down the brickwork and lay open one side of the
arch, which may still be seen.

* * * * *

The above particulars are enough to enable the reader to judge of the
distinctness of evidence which the details of Venetian architecture bear
to its dates. Farther explanation of the plates would be vainly tedious:
but the architect who uses these volumes in Venice will find them of
value, in enabling him instantly to class the mouldings which may
interest him; and for this reason I have given a larger number of
examples than would otherwise have been sufficient for my purpose.

FOOTNOTES:

[58] "Olim _magistri_ prothi palatii nostri novi."--_Cadorin_, p. 127.

[59] A print, dated 1585, barbarously inaccurate, as all prints were
at that time, but still in some respects to be depended upon,
represents all the windows on the facade full of traceries; and the
circles above, between them, occupied by quatrefoils.

[60] "Lata tanto, quantum est ambulum existens super columnis versus
canale respicientibus."

[61] Bettio, p. 28.

[62] In the bombardment of Venice in 1848, hardly a single palace
escaped without three or four balls through its roof: three came
into the Scuola di San Rocco, tearing their way through the pictures
of Tintoret, of which the ragged fragments were still hanging from
the ceiling in 1851; and the shells had reached to within a hundred
yards of St. Mark's Church itself, at the time of the capitulation.

[63] A _Mohammedan_ youth is punished, I believe, for such
misdemeanors, by being _kept away_ from prayers.

[64] "Those Venetians are fishermen."

[65] I am afraid that the kind friend, Lady Trevelyan, who helped me
to finish this plate, will not like to be thanked here; but I cannot
let her send into Devonshire for magnolias, and draw them for me,
_without_ thanking her.

[66] That is, the house in the parish of the Apostoli, on the Grand
Canal, noticed in Vol. II.; and see also the Venetian Index, under
head "Apostoli."

[67] Close to the bridge over the main channel through Murano is a
massive foursquare Goth