is dark and spoiled, but I am pretty
sure there are no demons or spectres in it. This is quite in
accordance with the master's caprice, but it considerably diminishes
the interest of a work in other ways unsatisfactory. There may once
have been something impressive in the shooting in of the rays at the
top of the cavern, as well as in the strange grass that grows in the
bottom, whose infernal character is indicated by its all being knotted
together; but so little of these parts can be seen, that it is not
worth spending time on a work certainly unworthy of the master, and in
great part probably never seen by him.

CATTARINA, CHURCH OF ST., said to contain a _chef-d'oeuvre_ of Paul
Veronese, the "Marriage of St. Catherine." I have not seen it.

CAVALLI, PALAZZO, opposite the Academy of Arts. An imposing pile, on
the Grand Canal, of Renaissance Gothic, but of little merit in the
details; and the effect of its traceries has been of late destroyed by
the fittings of modern external blinds. Its balconies are good, of the
later Gothic type. See "BARBARO."

CAVALLI, PALAZZO, next the Casa Grimani (or Post-Office), but on the
other side of the narrow canal. Good Gothic, founded on the Ducal
Palace, circa 1380. The capitals of the first story are remarkably
rich in the deep fillets at the necks. The crests, heads of
sea-horses, inserted between the windows, appear to be later, but are
very fine of their kind.

CICOGNA, PALAZZO, at San Sebastiano, II. 265.

CLEMENTE, CHURCH OF ST. On an island to the south of Venice, from
which the view of the city is peculiarly beautiful. See "SCALZI."

CONTARINI PORTA DI FERRO, PALAZZO, near the Church of St. John and
Paul, so called from the beautiful ironwork on a door, which was some
time ago taken down by the proprietor and sold. Mr. Rawdon Brown
rescued some of the ornaments from the hands of the blacksmith, who
had bought them for old iron. The head of the door is a very
interesting stone arch of the early thirteenth century, already drawn
in my folio work. In the interior court is a beautiful remnant of
staircase, with a piece of balcony at the top, circa 1350, and one of
the most richly and carefully wrought in Venice. The palace, judging
by these remnants (all that are now left of it, except a single
traceried window of the same date at the turn of the stair), must once
have been am