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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.
A Venetian nobleman, noble by birth, but very ignoble in his propensities, called Sgombro, and belonging to the Gritti family, fell deeply in love with him, and Croce, either for fun or from taste, shewed himself very compliant.
And what hurt Philip II. still more was, that Pope Sixtus V. himself, though all the while upholding the unity and authority of the Roman church, was bent upon not submitting to the yoke of Spain, and upon showing a favorable disposition towards France. "France is a very noble kingdom," he said to the Venetian ambassador Gritti; "the church has always obtained great advantages from her.
Together with San Gallo and Bramante he studied the science of architecture in Rome, where he also worked at the restoration of newly discovered antiques, and cast in bronze a copy of the "Laocoon." Thus equipped with the artistic learning of his age, he was called in 1523 by the Doge, Andrea Gritti, to Venice.
In Florence, within three years past, a fine portrait, by Titian, of the Doge Andrea Gritti, was picked out from a large lot of worthless canvases for six dollars. The Madonna del Gran Duca, at the Pitti, was bought by the father of the late Grand Duke, with some other pictures, of a widow, for a few dollars.
On the other hand, when the Venetians heard of the loss of their men they were furious, and the Doge Andrea Gritti sharply blamed Manfroni for leaving them behind. We may mention here that this Giovanni Paolo Manfroni was a splendid soldier and one of the finest captains of men-at-arms in Italy at this period.
We're also not of the opinion that the drug should be lethal; this should even be most carefully avoided." "Do whatever you want," she said. "But leave me out of it." "Your final word, countess?" "I've said it." "Well, so we'll have to arrange it so that the traveller will have an accident on the way. This always makes things more complicated and causes more suspicion." "And Gritti?"
Thus the first Grand Hotel block is fourteenth century the Palazzo Gritti. The next Grand Hotel block is the Palazzo Fini and is seventeenth century, and the third is the Manolesso-Ferro, built in the fourteenth century and restored in the nineteenth. Then comes the charming fourteenth-century Contarini-Fasan Palace, known as the house of Desdemona, which requires more attention.
I'm good for nothing, I'm unable to grasp even the simplest thought, as long as I don't have my poor Gritti." "You shall have him, Leonora. But not right away, since his sudden return would foil our plan." "And for how long shall I be patient?" she asked, regarding him with a deploring look. "This depends on you," he replied.
"How long will it take for you to make a young man lie at your feet, who previously enjoyed the reputation of a paragon of virtue?" A hint of curiosity and interest became noticeable in her features, which, just a moment ago, had expressed nothing but pain and desperation. "Whom are you talking about?" she asked. "That German, who was a friend of Gritti, the secretary of the minister from Vienna.
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