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Lettera intorno al Palazzo Ducale, 8vo, Venice, 1829. Temanza. Antica Pianta di Venezia, with text. Venice, 1780. Cadorin. Pareri di XV. Architetti. Svo, Venice,1838. Filiasi. Memorie storiche. 8vo, Padua, 1811. Bettio. Lettera discorsiva del Palazzo Ducale, 8vo, Venice, 1837. Selvatico. 1st. The BYZANTINE PALACE.
Selvatico misses this side altogether, as I did the first, so that the lost planet is irrecoverable, as the inscription is now defaced. Fourth side. A youth with a hawk on his fist. "IUVENTUTI DNT. SOL. P. AN. XIX." The sue governs youth for nineteen years. Fifth side. A man sitting, helmed, with a sword over his shoulder. Inscribed
There are two pages and a half of closely printed praise, of which the above specimens may suffice; but there is not a word of the statue of the dead from beginning to end. I am myself in the habit of considering this rather an important part of a tomb, and I was especially interested in it here, because Selvatico only echoes the praise of thousands.
A boy with a ball in his left hand, and his right laid on his breast. It is thin, thoughtful, and dignified; thoroughly fine in every way. It wears a cap surmounted by two winged lions; and, therefore, I think Selvatico must have inaccurately written the list given in the note, for this head is certainly meant to express the superiority of the Venetian character over that of other nations.
SECTION CI. Shakespeare's Seven Ages are of course merely the expression of this early and well-known system. He has deprived the dotage of its devotion; but I think wisely, as the Italian system would imply that devotion was, or should be, always delayed until dotage. TWENTY-THIRD CAPITAL. I agree with Selvatico in thinking this has been restored. It is decorated with large and vulgar heads.
The sculpture of this capital is also much coarser, and seems to me later than that of the rest; and it has no inscription, which is embarrassing, as its subjects have had much meaning; but I believe Selvatico is right in supposing it to have been intended for a general illustration of Idleness. First side. A woman with a distaff; her girdle richly decorated, and fastened by a buckle.
Inscribed "NOTARIUS SUM." Eighth side. A man forging a sword, or scythe-blade: he wears a large skull-cap; beats with a large hammer on a solid anvil; and is inscribed "FABER SUM." SECTION C. TWENTY-SECOND CAPITAL. The Ages of Man; and the influence of the planets on human life. First side. The moon, governing infancy for four years, according to Selvatico.
DON EDUARDO. Apenas lo sé yo todavía ... cualquiera país me es indiferente con tal que sea bien agreste y selvático. DON EDUARDO. He titubeado algún tiempo entre Californias y la Nueva Holanda; pero al cabo puede ser que me decida por la Isla de Francia. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Allí nacieron Pablo y Virginia! DON EDUARDO. Y el negro Domingo también.
Then Maria sent him also away, complaining that he was too wild, proprio selvatico, and only the 'quality' remained, the well-to-do youths from below. There was a little more coffee, and a talking, a story of a man who had fallen over a declivity in a lonely part going home drunk in the evening, and had lain unfound for eighteen hours.
Mémoires de Commynes, liv. vii. ch. xviii. The reader will find the weak points of Byzantine architecture shrewdly seized, and exquisitely sketched, in the opening chapter of the most delightful book of travels I ever opened, Curzon's "Monasteries of the Levant." Selvatico, "Architettura di Venezia," p. 147. Selvatico, p. 221. The older work is of Istrian stone also, but of different quality.
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