[ [479] [See letters to Webster, September 8, 1818, and to Hoppner, December 31, 1819, Letters, 1900, iv. 255, 393.]
[ [480] {461} "Un Capo de' Dieci" are the words of Sanuto's Chronicle.
The gory head is rolling down the steps!
The head is rolling dawn the gory steps!—
[Alternative readings. MS. M.]
[ [481] [A picture in oils of the execution of Marino Faliero, by Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), which was exhibited in the Salon in 1827, is now in the Wallace Collection (Provisional Catalogue, 1900, p. 28).]
[ [482] [End of the Historical Tragedy of Marino Faliero, or the Doge of Venice.
Begun April 4th, 1820.
Completed July 16th, 1820.
Finished copying in August 16th, 17th, 1820.
The which copying takes ten times the toil of composing, considering the weather—thermometer 90 in the shade—and my domestic duties.
The motto is—