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Chronicle of Pietro Dolfino, Cod. Ven. p. 47. This Chronicle is spoken of by Sansovino as "molto particolare, e distinta." Sansovino, Venezia descritta, p. 593. So far, then, of the Byzantine Palace. SECTION XII. 2nd. We may now, with some reason, doubt of their admirableness; but their importance, and the vigorous will and intellect of the Doge, are not to be disputed.
There was a Byzantine Ducal Palace, a Gothic Ducal Palace, and a Renaissance Ducal Palace. But the third superseded the second in part only, and the existing building is formed by the union of the two. The numbers of the manuscripts referred to in the Marcian Library are given with the quotations. Sansovino. Venetia Descritta. 410, Venice, 1663. Sansovino.
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