nor the reaction which was supposed to follow it; and he was buried without much ceremony and with no display in the church of the Tolentini.
The candidates proposed for election to succeed him were numerous, but not of good quality. One of them, Sebastiano Mocenigo, was such a bad
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character that when he had been in Vienna as Ambassador the Empress Maria Teresa had asked the Republic to recall him. The truth was that the few who were fit for the Dogeship would not accept it, or were opposed by the whole body of the corruptible.
PONTE DELLA PIETÀ
As a specimen of what went on during the election of the last Doge of Venice, I subjoin an official list of what were considered the legitimate expenses of the electors. The figures are from Mutinelli
Mutinelli, Ult.
and may be trusted. They are given in Venetian ‘lire,’ one of which is considered to have been equal to half a modern Italian ‘lira,’ or French franc.
| Ven. Lire. | |
| Bread, wine, oil, and vinegar | 29,421 |
| Fish | 24,410 |
| Meat, poultry, game | 20,370 |
| Sausages, large and small | 3,980 |
| Preserved fruits and candles | 47,670 |
| Wines, liquors, coffee | 63,845 |
| Spices, herbs, fruit, flowers | 6,314 |
| Wood and charcoal | 31,851 |
| Utensils hired, worn, and lost | 41,624 |
| Small expenses | 45,327 |
| Given to footmen and to workmen of the guilds | 63,583 |
| Tobacco and snuff | 4,931 |
| Poem ‘La Scaramuccia’ (The Skirmish) | 48 |
| Almanacks | 8 |
| Game of Rocambole (said to have been a kind of Ombre) | 550 |
| Nightcaps | 450 |
| Felt caps | 56 |
| Socks | 16 |
| Black silk wig-bags | 48 |
| French, German, and Spanish snuff-boxes | 3,077 |
| Combs ‘à la royale,’ for wigs, and for caps | 2,150 |
| Essence of rose, carnation, lavender, and vanilla; olive gum and gold powder; | 173 |
| Rouge | 9 |
| One rosary | 15 |
| Total | 389,926 |