onicle gives 804; and Filiasi,
vol. vi. chap. 1, corrects this date to 813.

[101] "Amplio la citta, fornilla di casamenti, _e per il culto d'
Iddio e l' amministrazione della giustizia_ eresse la cappella di S.
Marco, e il palazzo di sua residenza."--Pareri, p. 120. Observe,
that piety towards God, and justice towards man, have been at least
the nominal purposes of every act and institution of ancient Venice.
Compare also Temanza, p. 24. "Quello che abbiamo di certo si e che
il suddetto Agnello lo incomincio da fondamenti, e cost pure la
cappella ducale di S. Marco."

[102] What I call the Sea, was called "the Grand Canal" by the
Venetians, as well as the great water street of the city; but I
prefer calling it "the Sea," in order to distinguish between that
street and the broad water in front of the Ducal Palace, which,
interrupted only by the island of San Giorgio, stretches for many
miles to the south, and for more than two to the boundary of the
Lido. It was the deeper channel, just in front of the Ducal Palace,
continuing the line of the great water street itself which the
Venetians spoke of as "the Grand Canal." The words of Sansovino are:
"Fu cominciato dove si vede, vicino al ponte della paglia, et
rispondente sul canal grande." Filiasi says simply: "The palace was
built where it now is." "Il palazio fu fatto dove ora pure
esiste."--Vol. iii. chap. 27. The Savina Chronicle, already quoted,
says: "In the place called the Bruolo (or Broglio), that is to say,
on the Piazzetta."

[103] "Omni decoritate illius perlustrata."--Sagornino, quoted by
Cadorin and Temanza.

[104] There is an interesting account of this revolt in Monaci, p.
68. Some historians speak of the palace as having been destroyed
entirely; but, that it did not even need important restorations,
appears from Sagornino's expression, quoted by Cadorin and Temanza.
Speaking of the Doge Participazio, he says: "Qui Palatii hucusque
manentis fuerit fabricator." The reparations of the palace are
usually attributed to the successor of Candiano, Pietro Orseolo I.;
but the legend, under the picture of that Doge in the Council
Chamber, speaks only of his rebuilding St. Mark's, and "performing
many miracles." His whole mind seems to have been occupied with
ecclesiastical affairs; and his piety was finally manifested in a