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Updated: June 4, 2025
He stood in the dim light, panting and unable to find his words. Then he broke out again. "Have I not shown you how I love you, Lucia? What more could I do to prove it? I have betrayed my country, I have broken my vow, I have ruined my friends, and I have given my life in order to save you." It was young Lorenzo Loredan, the lover whom I had superseded.
According to Vasari, Giorgione, like his master Bellini, painted the Doge Leonardo Loredan, but the picture, where is it? And where are others mentioned by Vasari and Ridolfi? So fervid a lover of nature and his art must have painted much; yet there is but little left now. Can there be discoveries of Giorgiones still to be made?
"To whom may heaven accord a speedy, painless and Christian death!" laughed Foscari in his black beard. "Not till I am one of his heirs, if you please," returned Contarini. "As soon after the wedding day as you like, for besides her rich dowry, the lady is to have a share of his inheritance." "Is she very ugly?" asked Loredan. "Poor Jacopo! You have the sympathy of the brethren."
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