[60] “Lata tanto, quantum est ambulum existens super columnis versus canale respicientibus.”
[61] Bettio, p. 28.
[62] In the bombardment of Venice in 1848, hardly a single palace escaped without three or four balls through its roof: three came into the Scuola di San Rocco, tearing their way through the pictures of Tintoret, of which the ragged fragments were still hanging from the ceiling in 1851; and the shells had reached to within a hundred yards of St. Mark’s Church itself, at the time of the capitulation.
[63] A Mohammedan youth is punished, I believe, for such misdemeanors, by being kept away from prayers.
[64] “Those Venetians are fishermen.”
[65] I am afraid that the kind friend, Lady Trevelyan, who helped me to finish this plate, will not like to be thanked here; but I cannot let her send into Devonshire for magnolias, and draw them for me, without thanking her.
[66] That is, the house in the parish of the Apostoli, on the Grand Canal, noticed in Vol. II.; and see also the Venetian Index, under head “Apostoli.”
[67] Close to the bridge over the main channel through Murano is a massive foursquare Gothic palace, containing some curious traceries, and many unique transitional forms of window, among which these windows of the fourth order occur, with a roll within their dentil band.
[68] Thus, for the sake of convenience, we may generally call the palace with the emblems of the Evangelists on its spandrils, Vol. II.
[69] The house with chequers like a chess-board on its spandrils, given in my folio work.