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Updated: June 15, 2025
Their synagogues were built at Mestre, on the main-land; and their dead were buried in the sand upon the seashore, whither, on the Mondays of September, the baser sort of Venetians went to make merry, and drunken men and women danced above their desecrated tombs.
By the light of torches they were placed in boats which glided noiselessly by sleeping Venice to Mestre, and there they were transferred to carriages, two prisoners and four guards to each vehicle, and in this manner, for four dreary weeks, borne through the winter days farther and farther from country and home, sleeping at night in town-jails, by-way fortresses, or, when neither were available, in the worst apartments of lonely inns.
I wanted to give him a hearty kick as a punishment for his stupidity, but reflecting that common sense comes not by wishing for it I burst into a peal of laughter, and agreed that I might have made a mistake, but that my real intention was to go to Mestre. To that they answered nothing, but a minute after the master boatman said he was ready to take me to England if I liked.
When he thought that he had put them sufficiently off their guard, the ambassador one day took Bibboni and Bebo out by Canaregio and Mestre to Malghera, concealed in his own gondola, with the whole train of Spaniards in attendance. And though, on landing, the Florentines challenged them, they durst not interfere with an ambassador or come to battle with his men.
Now those gondolas would do very well for our luggage, while the party of five made the journey more luxuriously. "Party of six, you mean, unless the Prince has had an accident," amended Beechy. "No; for I shan't be with you. I must drive the car to the garage at Mestre, and see that she's all right.
Among those of the first class, we find: A Report relating to Casanova's success in having a change made in the route of the weekly diligence running from Trieste to Mestre, for which service, rendered during Casanova's residence at Trieste in 1773, he received encouragement and the sum of one hundred ducats from the Tribunal.
At last the road turns sharply to the north, and there is an open space, covered with bent grass, on the right of it: but do not look that way. § IX. Five minutes more, and we are in the upper room of the little inn at Mestre, glad of a moment's rest in shade.
It was on the third morning of his journey that Casanova, having reached Mestre, sighted once more the bell tower after over twenty years of longing a pillar of grey stone looming distantly in the twilight. It was but two leagues now to the beloved city in which he had been young.
Except on Sundays, high festivals, the first, the middle, and the last day of carnival, through all the time of my acquaintance with him, I never knew him break these habits but once, and that was when his mother died at Mestre and he had to attend the funeral. On that occasion he must rise at six, and miss his dinner at noon. He was furious, I never saw a man so angry.
There was no longer wildness in his actions; but in his thoughts and language, was developed a poetical eccentricity a morbid sympathy with surrounding scenes and impressions, which kept Sir Henry Delme in a constant state of alarm, and which was very remarkable. "What! at Mestre already, Pietro?" said Sir Henry. "Even so, Signore! and here is the gondola to take you on to Venice."
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