[58] Sir Henry Wotton told the Doge that the blow was struck by a Scotchman, who used to hang about the English embassy.
[59] The writer of the “History of the Council of Trent” is placed by Ranke second to Macchaevelli alone as an Italian historian. Mazzini, in an essay published in vol. iv. of his collected works, claims that Sarpi was the real discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
[60] So indelible an impression was made by the long struggle on the popular mind, that the locution, a vera guerra di Candia, to express bitter personal enmity was common in Byron’s time.
[61] The incidents of this, a nobler chapter than any of the foregoing in Venetian history, may be read in Mr Bolton King’s “History of United Italy,” 2 vols., Nisbet, 1899.
[62] Macigno is a hard sandstone.
[63] Later researches have brought into prominence the name of Pietro Basseggio, who is now believed to have designed the earlier S. façade of the Palace.
[64] Il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia.
[65] In early times architecture, sculpture, and engineering were branches of the same profession. Michel Angelo worked for six months at San Miniato on the fortifications of Florence.
[66] Arch. Stor. Ital. vol. vii. p. 674.
[67] Now assigned to Marc’ Antonio Gambello and Moro Coducci.