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There was the Palazzo Colonna, with its garden edged by meagre cypresses; the Palazzo Torlonia, almost ripped open by recent "improvements"; the Palazzo di Venezia, bare and fearsome, with its crenelated walls, its stern and tragic appearance, that of some fortress of the middle ages, forgotten there amidst the commonplace life of nowadays.
"It hath not the beauty of the 'Venezia' in the palazzo," said one. "And the church is dark," said another, "and the people like the red and blue of the colors of the true Madonna." "And a frate, of the Servi since it hath been painted for the convent here kneeling," suggested another, more timidly; for it was known that the Veronese was not always docile in these days, since he had become great.
An enforced inactivity of the military legs will quicken the military wits, it would appear, for some of the younger officers spoke hotly as to their notion of the method of ruling Venezia. A thundering thrashing, once a month or so, to these unruly Italians, because they are like women!
The choir contains a very fine set of stalls, made in 1394 by "Maestro Giovanni quondam Giacomo da Borgo San Sepolcro in Venezia," at a cost of 456 ducats of gold. They used to be in front of the altar, but were moved in 1808 when the new altar was put up. In the Cappella del Crocifisso is a large Carpaccio, an allegory of the militant and triumphant Church, with a row of portrait figures.
Caesar took the tram in the Piazza Venezia, and got out after crossing the Tiber, near the Via delle Fratte. He soon found the convent; it had a yellow portal with a Latin inscription which sang the gymnastic glories of Saint Pascual Bailon. Above the inscription there was a picture, in which a monk, no doubt Bailon, was dancing among the clouds.
She was dazed, and at first did not understand what had happened; then a light broke over her face and, reaching up, she smoothed the ruffled feathers whispered, "Poor Chico! Poor Chico!" until a quiver of the eyelids and the most pathetic of faint "coos" gave evidence that the sufferer appreciated her sympathy. In the meantime the word had spread, and cries of "Evviva Venezia!
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Gliding in the gondola through the narrow canals at low tide, she leaned back simulating stupor, with one word 'Venezia! Her brother was commanded to smoke: 'Fumez, fumez, Roland! As soon as the steel-crested prow had pushed into her Paradise of the Canal Grande, she quietly shrouded her hair from tobacco, and called upon rapture to recompense her for her sufferings.
The Gazetta di Venezia responds, affirming that the majority of the bishops brought with them to Rome their mistresses, and in some instances their children. The Gazetta offers to disclose the names of these bishops, and demands that the Pope shall satisfy the Catholic world by taking measures against them. And the result is merely to create scandal and invite his own disgrace! A quoi bon!"
The Corso was full of people, all standing still and facing toward the Capitol, as though they expected something to come from that direction. From the Piazza del Popolo to the Piazza di Venezia they were jammed so tight that nobody could budge.
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