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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Not so fast," said Abellino, laughing rudely, and he barred the Doge's passage. "Accident seldom unites in so small a space as this chamber a pair of such great men. Stay where you are, for I have not done with you yet; we must have a little conversation."
Set against the Tower of London with its 800 years of historic life, its 1,900 prisons of traditional fame all other palaces and prisons appear like things of an hour. The oldest bit of palace in Europe, that of the west front of the Burg in Vienna, is of the time of Henry the Third. The Kremlin in Moscow, the Doge's Palazzo in Venice, are of the fourteenth century.
Yet here and there a young face looked out, roses in the hair and at the breast; or a Doge's cap and beneath it phantom features still breathing even in the last decay of canvas and paint the violence and intrigue of the living man the ghost of character held there by the ghost of art.
I wished for a few ears of the same kind, dispersed about the Doge's residence, to which one might apply one's own, and catch some account of the mysteries within; some little dialogue between the Three Inquisitors, or debate in the Council of Ten.
But first he tumbled over the front of his dress because it would get under his boots, and he was afraid to hold it up, not having practised doing this. Alice, who looked terrible with the transformation leaning right-ear-ward, said yes, and that we had come to say what a fine, bold conception we thought the Doge's chapter was.
My letters inform me that some time ago there did exist a family of that name; but it has been long extinct, or if any of its descendants are still in being at Florence, their existence is quite a secret. Gonzaga. Are you all invited to the Doge's tomorrow? Contarino. All of us, without exception. Gonzaga. That is well.
What do you mean? What do you know that I don't know? Do you know those shadows that I cannot understand better than I?" he pleaded; and he was thinking of the Doge's look of pity and challenge and of the meeting long ago in Florence as the hazy filaments of a mystery. "No, I should not have said that. What do I know? Little nothing that will help! I know what is in me, as I know what is in you.
Patrician influence from without had procured Casanova's removal in August of that year, 1756, from the loathsome cell he had occupied for thirteen months in the Piombi so called from the leaded roof immediately above those prisons which are simply the garrets of the Doge's palace.
Jacopo took the first entrance into the court of the Doge's palace. His footstep was leisurely, and to the passing multitude they appeared like any others of the thousands who were abroad to breathe the soft air of the night, or to enter into the pleasures of the piazza. When within the dimmer and broken light of the court, Jacopo paused, evidently to scan the persons of those it contained.
I understood that that scamp of a Vecellio was responsible that they had been bending over the book together, and that they had been admiring either that Doge's wife we had been looking at awhile before, or some other patrician woman of Venice. Never mind! I appeared with my enormous old book, thinking that Gelis was going to make a grimace.
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