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Updated: June 23, 2025
Know, then, that I love, with all the enthusiasm of a first passion, the most beautiful woman of her time that she is the only daughter of the proudest senator in Venice that she is no stranger to your family, and now resides within a league of us. Her name is Laura Foscari; and she is, alas! the destined and unwilling bride of the opulent Ercole Barozzo, governor of Candia."
"I will follow you, if you will give me your word of honour to land me free in Corfu." "I have orders to deliver your person to M. Foscari, on board the bastarda." "Well, you shall not execute your orders this time." "If you do not obey the commands of the general, his honour will compel him to use violence against you, and of course he can do it.
"It is of no use to say that the poor fellow is only a glass-blower," Venier continued. "There are men besides patricians in the world, and good men, too. I mean to tell Contarini what I think of it to-night." "I will, too," said Foscari at once. "And I intend to use all the influence my family has, to obtain a fair hearing for the Dalmatian. I hope you will help me.
The reign of Foscari followed, gloomy with pestilence and war; a war in which large acquisitions of territory were made by subtle or fortunate policy in Lombardy, and disgrace, significant as irreparable, sustained in the battles on the Po at Cremona, and in the marshes of Caravaggio.
She answered impatiently, putting up her hand, "Oh, yes, and a clever physician and good: I don't deny that he was good. A man to be admired in a play grand, with an iron will. Like the old Foscari before he pardons. But such men turn their wives and daughters into slaves.
Old Beroviero came to see me this morning and told me a long story about it, which I cannot possibly remember; but it seems to me you understand!" He spoke in low tones, for the Merceria was crowded. Foscari, who was one of those who took most seriously the ceremonial of the secret society, while not caring a straw for its political side, looked very grave.
Such were the sentiments of the Grand Duke of Reisenburg on this subject, a subject interesting to Englishmen; and I confess I think that they are worthy of attention. In accordance with his opinions, the actor who performed Othello appeared in the full dress of a Venetian magnifico of the middle ages; a fit companion for Cornaro, or Grimani, or Barberigo, or Foscari.
There is a handsome stone gateway belonging to it, decorated with a carved coat of arms supported by lions; but the house, like the poor Palazzo Foscari at Venice, is tenanted only by a nest of squalid families. The Hôtel du Bras d'Or is a plain, comfortable country inn, civil and reasonable. To Aix sixteen miles.
I have never heard exactly where the tragedy of The Two Foscari was written: that it was imagined in Venice is probable. The subject is, perhaps, not very fit for a drama, for it has no action; but it is rich in tragic materials, revenge and affection, and the composition is full of the peculiar stuff of the poet's own mind.
The Venetian envoy, Francesco Foscari, hearing of the emperor's arrival, hastened to Pavia, and with difficulty obtained an audience from His Majesty, who told him that it was impossible for him to visit Milan or remain any longer in Italy, since the German Diet was about to meet, and he had promised to join his son, the Archduke Philip, at Augsburg.
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