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But perhaps that conclusion of Ruskin's, in the new volume, which will most interest his earnest readers, is that the Venetian school is the only religious school that has ever existed.
Halfway ports where the health of the sailors might be recruited, where the ship often battered and leaking, might be repaired, and stored once more with water and fresh vegetables, were absolutely essential to safe and profitable commerce. But until about the year 1500 the Venetian traders to India had found no such harbor of refuge in the South Atlantic.
There was a wide green common before it, shaded by young trees, and only the inclosing fence and the road lay between this and the river, which was broad and shallow, and flowed softly in this part of its course. The church was a very pretty one of its kind white as snow, with large-paned windows, and green Venetian blinds.
Next, she was conscious that a lath of a Venetian blind was pulled aside and that someone was spying upon her from the aperture. She waited further, the while two of the curious women who leaned from the windows were loudly deciding the date on which Mavis's baby would be born. Then, the door of No. 9 was suspiciously opened about six inches.
A Genoese galley in port immediately set sail, and quickly carried the news to Constantinople, where the emperor at once threw the whole of the Venetian residents into prison. As soon as the news of this reached Tenedos the captain of the Bonito held a consultation with Francis. "It is evident, Messer Francisco, that we cannot proceed upon our northward voyage.
"There is nothing against the character of the Venetian of any sort," said Bianca, with a sigh. "Ta, ta, ta! I'd back your chance of the uncle against her chance of the nephew, any day of the week." "Ludovico is solemnly engaged to her." "I'd hold to my bet, all the same for that; and now let's get to bed, you have to sing to-morrow night." "Yes, and I'm regularly tired out; good-night."
To say that the entirety of it lies between the two meridians that bound the particular tract in which our own little life happens to be cast is stupid. The whole great past belongs to us river and island, ocean, forest, continent, all are ours. You and the man in armor, you and the Venetian merchant, you and the cowled monk have something, be it ever so little, something in common.
As she wrote in her joyous letters to her husband, there was nothing lacking that could charm the eyes or please the mind, and the courtesy and hospitality of the venerable old Doge and of the Venetian Signory left nothing to be desired. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 376. Molmenti, op. cit., p. 693.
It was in vain that Bonaparte strove to soothe the provisional government of that city through the influence of a Venetian Jew, who, after his conversion, had taken the famous name of Dandolo. Summoning him to Passeriano, he explained to him the hard necessity which now dictated the transfer of Venice to Austria.
Rushworth, gives to his Venetian period before he left for the Marches, the Virgin and Child now at Verona, and sees in this the strongest evidences of his connection with the School of Padua. Gardiner's collection at Boston, and in Mr. Johnson's collection at Philadelphia.
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