[[E]][Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland, 1818.]
[[F]][See an article on Goethe's Aus Meinem Leben, etc., in the Edinburgh Review for June, 1816, vol. xxvi. pp. 304-337.]
[ [cv] {345} Are none yet of the Messengers returned?—[MS. M.]
[ [380] [The Consiglio Minore, which originally consisted of the Doge and his six councillors, was afterwards increased, by the addition of the three Capi of the Quarantia Criminale, and was known as the Serenissima Signoria (G. Cappelletti, Storia della Repubblica di Venezia, 1850, i. 483). The Forty who were "debating on Steno's accusation" could not be described as the "Signory.">[
[ [cw] With seeming patience.—[MS. M.]
[ [cx] He sits as deep—[MS. M.]
[ [cy] {346}Or aught that imitates—.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [cz] Young, gallant—.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [381] [Bertuccio Faliero was a distant connection of the Doge, not his nephew. Matters of business and family affairs seem to have brought them together, and it is evident that they were on intimate terms.—La Congiura, p. 84.]
[ [382] [The Avogadori, three in number, were the conductors of criminal prosecutions on the part of the State; and no act of the councils was valid, unless sanctioned by the presence of one of them; but they were not, as Byron seems to imply, a court of first instance. The implied reproach that they preferred to send the case to appeal because Steno was a member of the "Quarantia," is based on an error of Sanudo's (vide ante, [p. 333]).]