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Emilio stood mute, seeing that the prima dona was smiling at him through her tears. "Your Highness does not know that the man who had me trained for the stage that the Duke is Cataneo himself. And your friend Vendramini, thinking to do you a service, let him this palace for a thousand crowns, for the period of my season at the Fenice.
The hapless youth mourned for Venice as she had been, as did Vendramini, even more bitterly, for it was a great and common sorrow, a similar destiny, that had engendered such a warm friendship between these two young men, the wreckage of two illustrious families.
Marco Vendramini, a name also pronounced Vendramin, in the Venetian dialect, which drops many final letters, his only friend, wrote to tell him that Facino Cane, Prince of Varese, had died in a hospital in Paris. Proofs of his death had come to hand, and the Cane-Memmi were Princes of Varese.
Another palace we visited was that of the Vendramini Colerghi, now the property of the Duchesse de Berri, who makes it her ordinary winter-quarters. It is a large and elegant building, in a form approaching that of the letter Z, with a flower-garden in front of the receding part.
Vendramini, who came between Pietro and Giovanni Mocenigo, had a brief and bellicose reign.
We in France France as the growing mania for English proprieties has made it can form no idea of the serious interest taken in this affair by Venetian society. Vendramini alone knew Emilio's secret, which was carefully kept between two men who had, for private pleasure, combined their coats of arms with the motto Non amici, frates.
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