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Opposite the house in which he had taken his lodging resided a shoemaker, by name Jerome Farusi, with his wife Marzia, and Zanetta, their only daughter a perfect beauty sixteen years of age. The young actor fell in love with this girl, succeeded in gaining her affection, and in obtaining her consent to a runaway match.
I did not want to know her long before recognizing that she was absolutely impregnable. I told Pittoni so, but all in vain; he still fed on empty hope. Zanetta had very poor health, though no one would have judged so from her appearance, but it was well known to be the case. She died at an early age.
She has an old guardian, who, at the age of sixty, or more, has been absurd enough only think of it to propose to marry her himself." "The absurd old fool!" cried Beppo, not without some twinges, for he thought of his own projects with regard to Zanetta. "Now, then," said the mask, "I have resolved to run away with her to-night. I have the opportunity for she is here in the Palazzo Colonna.
Opposite the house in which he had taken his lodging resided a shoemaker, by name Jerome Farusi, with his wife Marzia, and Zanetta, their only daughter a perfect beauty sixteen years of age. The young actor fell in love with this girl, succeeded in gaining her affection, and in obtaining her consent to a runaway match.
He not only forgave them, but gave up his gondola to the stronger hands of Antonio, and settled a handsome portion on Zanetta; nor did he ever regret his generosity, for they proved grateful and affectionate, and were the stay and solace of his declining years. Such is the veritable history of a carnival incident of the olden days of Venice.
He was a fine, dashing, handsome young fellow of twenty-six, in a holiday suit of crimson and gold, with a fiery eye, long, curling locks, and a mustache as black as jet. "Let's hear what Antonio Giraldo has to say about the matter!" cried his companions. "Simply this," said the young man. "I have seen the imprisoned fair one the peerless Zanetta for such is her name.
I did not want to know her long before recognizing that she was absolutely impregnable. I told Pittoni so, but all in vain; he still fed on empty hope. Zanetta had very poor health, though no one would have judged so from her appearance, but it was well known to be the case. She died at an early age.
Pittoni was in love with her and continued so till her death. His suit lasted for twelve years, and like Petrarch, he still sighed, still hoped, but never succeeded. Her name was Zanetta, and besides her beauty she had the charm of being an exquisite singer and a polished hostess. Still more noteworthy, however, was the unvarying sweetness and equability of her disposition.
"And why shouldn't a man be, on his wedding day?" "Mad as a march hare," cried Stefano. "Mark me," said Antonio. "That girl shall never marry old Beppo my word for it. She hates him." "She'll elope with some noble, then." "To be cast off to wither when he is tired of her charms? No! the bridegroom for Zanetta is a gondolier." "With all my heart," said Stefano.
And it was a true word, that in the prime of her youth and fine flower of her beauty, the fair Zanetta was poor. Fabio answered her: "Kind Zanetta, there is more nobility in the hovel where you dwell than in all the Palaces of Venice." For three days longer Fabio visited the banks and fondacos without discovering any one willing to lend him money.
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