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Updated: June 3, 2025
But let me die as I have lived, among the workmen of Murano Magagnati, of the Venetian people." "Never before, in the annals of the Republic, was one known to refuse the gift of nobility," Giustinian explained, as he described the scene to the Lady Laura.
They had reached the little landing of the first long waterway of Murano, where one of the low arcaded houses, with its slender shafts of red Verona marble, was the dwelling of Girolamo Magagnati; the others of this little block of three were used as show-rooms and offices for the great establishment which was connected with them, in the rear, by small courtyards; and the dense smoke of the glass factories always rested over them, although this was the quarter of the aristocrats of Murano.
Messer Magagnati knows not of this; for so tenderly doth his daughter care for him that, to save him pain of knowing that she suffers for lack of thy welcome, she hath not told him. Shall the Veronese plead with thee better than thine own son? For he knoweth the maiden well; and the father, who is most honorably reported in Venice for the wonder of his discoveries in his industry of glass.
"And where was the Lady Marina, the daughter of Messer Magagnati their lady, who had been good to the people?" "She was there within," some one answered, "she was not strong the salutes were too much for her. She was waiting within, with her maidens." "To miss such a beautiful festa!
For the world was surely on the eve of discoveries important to his art, and it would be well if he might secure them, before his working days should pass, for the Stabilimento Magagnati.
"Messer Magagnati," he began awkwardly, twirling his black cap in his hand rather after the fashion of a gondolier than of the Chief of the Nicolotti, "I must crave, by dawn of the morrow, the blessing of San Nicolò of holy memory."
For the magnificent galley which the little one of the Ca' Giustiniani he that is grandson to our Messer Girolamo Magagnati hath given to the Republic will be floated out from the basin of the arsenal and christened this day!" The spirits of the light-hearted crowd effervesced in a jubilant cheer. "I Giustiniani!"
"Name her," the Lady Laura repeated, unbending slightly. "Marina Magagnati." She stood listening, as if more were to follow, then she shook her head. "I know not the name, unless but it is not possible! She is not of Venice, then?" "A Venetian of the Venetians, my mother, with the love of Venice in her soul but not " "Marcantonio, explain thine enigma!
Sometimes, too, there were moments of strange tenderness within him for this helpless, suffering morsel of humanity that called him "babbo!" He did not know what might happen if the wrath of the redoubtable Magagnati were to be invoked against him, for this quarrel could not be disposed of as those small matters with the gondoliers had invariably been.
The yellow lamp flames were burning late in the cabinet of Girolamo Magagnati, who took less note of the difference between evening hours and those of early dawn since there was no longer in his household a beloved one to guard from weariness. Nay, the night was rather the time in which he might forget himself and plunge more whole-heartedly into his schemes of work financial or creative.
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