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Updated: June 17, 2025
If there were no halls of equal splendor in the palace which had been prepared for Marcantonio and his bride, it displayed in all its appointments an elegance and fitness which the stately Lady Laura was eager to exhibit to the critical appreciation of the fastidious upper circle of Venice.
The Corsican has a heart, if you only know where to find it. Forgetting his dread of an ambush, or disregarding it in the violence of his emotion, Marcantonio flung wide the door, stepped forth, and casting both arms about the horse's neck and mane, caressed him passionately and even with tears. "O Nello! O brave spirit! O true son of the Dezii!"
He was always a welcome visitor at the palazzo Giustiniani, and already the little prince of the household had a special smile for him. "Ah, Fra Francesco, of course!" said Marcantonio, in an indulgent tone; "our own friars and ecclesiastics are welcome.
"Maestro mio!" cried Marcantonio at length, in ecstasy; "none among us may learn the marvel of thine art!" "I have but touched thy sketch with the power that mine art could give," the master answered, well pleased. "Yet it is thou who hast read the secret of the face that was not revealed to me." "We were speaking of the 'Libro d'Oro," the young patrician interrupted eagerly.
"Thy hand hath yet to learn its cunning," the master said, as in much confusion, one morning when they were quite alone, his pupil revealed his roughly executed head; "yet thou hast painted the soul! The heart hath done it, Signorino mio, for thou art not yet an artist. There is no other lady for Marcantonio Giustiniani; yet she comes not of a noble house."
"Is it because they are faithful to their vows, and to their Church?" she asked at length, in quiet irony. "Nay, but because they teach disobedience to princes and would thus undermine the law of the land," Marcantonio hastened to explain, grateful that she could at length discuss the question. "Carina, blessed be San Marco, thou art like thyself!
But the dignified company were pressing the young secretary for his answer, and one of them anxiously repeated the keynote, "An examination which prejudiced the ancient right of Venice?" "Courtesy and wisdom would render any other opinion inadmissible," Marcantonio replied, "in Venice." The elder Giustinian had detected the slight pause which preceded the last two words.
We will care for thee, as a father should. "Let the noble Senator Marcantonio Giustiniani approach and conduct his lady to private apartments within our palace, where she may rest, with her maidens, until she shall be refreshed. One of our secretaries shall show the way and remain to see that every aid is bestowed."
Also, let it not be known that she is so weak in courage; it would be held against Marcantonio, to whom the suspicion of being wife-ridden would do an infinite injustice.
The subject known to us in an early plate of Marcantonio Raimondi, and popularly called, or rather miscalled, the Dream of Raphael, is recognised by Herr Wickhoff as having its root in the art of Giorgione. She will not yield to her new-born love for the Greek enemy Jason, because this love is the most shameful treason to father and people.
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