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Updated: May 20, 2025
Then, after a minute's hesitation, the violins began the prelude of that once famous air, which has remained popular in Venice the words written, some hundred years ago, by the patrician Gritti, the music by an unknown composer La Biondina in Gondoleta. That cursed eighteenth century! It seemed a malignant fatality that made these brutes choose just this piece to interrupt me.
All the company were familiar with the Venetian bacaroles, and Castelrovinato's lute was passed from hand to hand, as one after another, incited by the Marquess's Canary, tried to recall some favourite measure "La biondina in gondoleta" or "Guarda, che bella luna." Meanwhile life was stirring in the villages and gardens, and groups of people appearing on the terraces overhanging the water.
Yes; I begin to identify it: 'tis the Biondina in Gondoleta, the only song of the eighteenth century which is still remembered by the Venetian people.
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