a in question.

[115] Vide Bettio, Lettera, p. 23.

[116] Bettio, Lettera, p. 20. "Those who wrote without having seen
them described them as covered with lead; and those who have seen
them know that, between their flat timber roofs and the sloping
leaden roof of the palace, the interval is five metres where it is
least, and nine where it is greatest."

[117] "Questo Dose anche fese far la porta granda che se al intrar
del Pallazzo, in su la qual vi e la sua statua che sta in
zenocchioni con lo confalon in man, davanti li pie de lo Lion S.
Marco,"--_Savin Chronicle_, Cod. Ven. p. 120.

[118] These documents I have not examined myself, being satisfied of
the accuracy of Cadorin, from whom I take the passages quoted.

[119] "Libras tres, soldos 15 grossorum."--_Cadorin_, 189, 1.

[120] Cod. Ven., No. CXLI. p. 365.

[121] Sansovino is more explicit than usual in his reference to this
decree: "For it having appeared that the place (the first Council
Chamber) was not capacious enough, the saloon on the Grand Canal was
ordered." "Per cio parendo che il luogo non fosse capace, fu
ordinata la Sala sul Canal Grande."--P. 324.

[122] Cadorin, 185, 2. The decree of 1342 is falsely given as of 1345
by the Sivos Chronicle, and by Magno; while Sanuto gives the decree
to its right year, 1342, but speaks of the Council Chamber as only
begun in 1345.

[123] Calendario. See Appendix 1, Vol. III.

[124] "Il primo che vi colorisse fu Guariento, il quale l' anno 1365
vi fece il Paradiso in testa della sala."--_Sansovino._

[125] "L' an poi 1400 vi fece il cielo compartita a quadretti d'oro,
ripieni di stelle, ch' era la insegna del Doge Steno."--_Sansovino_,
lib. VIII.

[126] "In questi tempi si messe in oro il cielo della sala del Gran
Consiglio et si fece il pergolo del finestra grande chi guarda sul
canale, adornato l'uno e l'altro di stelle, ch' erano l'insegne del
Doge."--_Sansovino_, lib. XIII. Compare also Pareri, p. 129.

[127] Baseggio (Pareri, p. 127) is called the Proto of the _New_
Palace. Farther notes will be found in Appendix 1, Vol. III.

[128] Cronaca Sanudo, No. CXXV. in the Marcian Library, p. 568.

[129] Tomaso Mocenigo.

[130] Vide notes in Appendix.

[131] On the 4th of April, 1423, according to the copy of the
Zancarol Chronicle in the Marcian Library, but previously, acco