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They directed me to the Square, where I found Colonel Canale, controlling the movements of Batteries, looking straight before him out of uncomprehending, heavy eyes, like one crushed under a weight of bitter humiliation. He asked where our guns were. I told him they were getting near now, but stuck fast in the traffic.
It is, therefore, disagreeable to have to dine with him. In this respect he may be favorably contrasted with the Roman prelates of the age of Leo. His relations to Vannozza Catanei, the titular wife first of Giorgio de Croce, and then of Carlo Canale, and to Giulia Farnese, surnamed La Bella, the titular wife of Orsino Orsini, were open and acknowledged.
The real grand thoroughfare of Venice is the Canale Grande a wide curving street, which sweeps through a great part of the city. The principal palaces of the nobility, the superbest of the churches, and the best hotels, are placed along this water-street.
The host hesitated a moment; then looking down, he said: "Your excellency is a German?" "Yes, a German," said the stranger, impatiently. "I thought so," sighed the host. "Will you show me my rooms or not? Decide quickly, for I know there are other handsome hotels on the Canale Grande where I would be willingly received." The host bowed with an aggrieved expression. "Signor, I will show you rooms.
Canale surpasses himself here, for he loved State ceremonies; he gives a paragraph to the advance of each gild, its salutation and withdrawal, and the cumulative effect of all the paragraphs is enchanting, like a prose ballade, with a repeated refrain at the end of every verse.
Saraceni to Ercole, Rome, September 16th. Rome, September 23d, Saraceni. Despatch, September 25th. To this Ercole replied in reassuring terms. Letter to his orators in Rome, September 18, 1501. Despatch of Matteo Canale to Ercole, Rome, September 18, 1501. Both bulls are in the archives of Modena. The first is a copy, the second an original.
I never saw him open it. But most constant of our little party was Jobbins, our one Englishman, who came in late to the Orientale where, or if, he dined none of us could say with the stool and canvas and paint-box he had been carrying about all day from one campo, or calle, or canale, to another, in search of a subject.
His gondola touched hers; she flung aside the curtains and leaped into the boat with him. But as she dreamed, there floated over the water the sound of song. This was no unusual sound on the Canale Grande, but the music was not Italian; it was no languishing barcarolle, such as Venetian lovers were wont to sing to their mistresses; the air was foreign the words were French.
Then, as the advance continued, the Austrian right wing above Canale gave way in confusion and the Italians pressed forward on to the Bainsizza Plateau. But their difficulties were tremendous. When they left the valley of the Isonzo behind them, they entered a waterless land, without springs for some four miles.
And in this fair town is also great plenty of ladies and damsels and maidens, very richly apparelled. It happened that there was a new Doge that year, our year 1268, Lorenzo Tiepolo by name, and a great procession of the gilds took place before the palace on the Piazza of St Mark to welcome his accession. Martino da Canale was watching it and wrote it all down in his chronicle.
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