[78] “Marietta or the Maid of Venice.”
[79] Goldoni’s grandfather was a native of Modena: Il Burbero Benefico was first performed at Paris and subsequently translated into Italian.
[80] Now assigned to Moro Coducci of Bergamo.
[81] The Ducal Palace is not built on piles, but rests on a stratum of stiff clay.
[82] Sanudo.
[83] Italiæ brevis Descriptio, Ultrajecti, 1650.
[84] “Letters of an Architect from France, Italy and Greece,” by Joseph Woods, 1828, vol. i., p. 256, et seq.
[85] Unhappily most of the old Greek marbles have been replaced by inferior Carrara. It was once proposed by the restorers to varnish and smoke the S. façade, to imitate the rich colours which the mellowing effect of time has given to the original incrustations.
[86] Left of the spectator.
[87] No. 567 in the Accademia.