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Updated: August 1, 2024
It is important to reach SS. Giovanni e Paolo by gondola, because the canals are particularly fascinating between this point and, say, the Molo. A few yards up this canal you pass the Fondamenta Dandolo on the right, at the corner of which the most commanding equestrian statue in the world breaks on your vision, behind it rising the vast bulk of the church.
Nothing of importance a palace with red and gold posts and an antiquity store before the next rio, the beautiful Rio del Santissimo o di Stefano; nor after this, until the calle and traghetto: merely two neglected houses, one with a fondamenta. And then a pension arises, next to which is one of the most coveted abodes in the whole canal the little alluring house and garden that belong to Prince Hohenlohe. The majestic palace now before us is one of Sansovino's buildings, the Palazzo Corner della C
The heavy gates closed behind them, and the dismal tolling of the bell ended in a silence through which the heart-beats of Fra Antonio sounded in his ears louder and more ominous than the harsh tones of the summons had done a moment before. Who were those two terrible gondoliers all in black, who stood by the water-entrance on the Fondamenta?
Meanwhile the younger men and maidens, on a neighboring fondamenta, keep step to the music of some strolling player who lives, content, on the trifling harvest of these moonlight festivities. In the great Piazza of San Marco, with its hundreds of lights and its hurrying throng, life is gayer than in the day.
Piero was paddling furiously. "Jacopo, of the Fondamenta del Mori not better than others with that boastful sentence blazoned on his door! 'The coloring of Titian, with the drawing of Angelo!" Great fool!
He made large sums and spent large sums, and his house was the scene of splendid entertainments. It still stands, not far from the Jesuits' church, but it is now the centre of a slum, and his large garden, which extended to the lagoon where the Fondamenta Nuovo now is, has been built over. Titian's place in art is high and unassailable.
S. Mark is above the door, with the brotherhood around him. And now let us look again and again at the Colleoni, from every angle. But he is noblest from the extreme corner on the Fondamenta Dandolo.
A little house with a dog in relief on it and a pretty colonnade and fondamenta, and then the Palazzo Martinengo, or Mandelli, with that very rare thing in Venice, a public clock on the roof, and a garden. And so we reach the shabby S. Marcuola, her campo, traghetto, and steamer station.
I had a room in the top of the Palazzo da Mula on the Grand Canal just above the Salute and within a step of the traghetto of San Giglio. By going out of the rear door and keeping close to the wall of the houses skirting the Fondamenta San Zorzi, I could reach the traghetto without getting wet. The Quadri was the nearest caffe, anyhow, and so I started.
"Eccellentissimi," the messenger explained to the horror-stricken questioners, "they were five, rushing out from the dark of the convent wall against him when he came alone down the steps of the Ponte della Pugna, the villains held the others down. And Fra Paolo lay dead on the Fondamenta stabbed in many places, as if one would cut him in bits and the stiletto still in his forehead!
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