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A WANDERER IN
VENICE
BY
E.V. LUCAS
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
HARRY MORLEY
AND THIRTY-TWO PHOTOGRAPHS FROM PAINTINGS AND A MAP
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1914,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
"In like manner I say, that had there bin an offer made unto me before I took my journey to Venice, eyther that foure of the richest manors of Somerset-shire (wherein I was borne) should be gratis bestowed upon me if I never saw Venice, or neither of them if I should see it; although certainly these manors would do me much more good in respect of a state of livelyhood to live in the world than the sight of Venice, yet notwithstanding I will ever say while I live, that the sight of Venice and her resplendent beauty, antiquities, and monuments, hath by many degrees more contented my minde, and satisfied my desires, than those foure Lordships could possibly have done."—Thomas Coryat.
PREFACE
For a detailed guide to Venice the reader must go elsewhere; all that I have done is invariably to mention those things that have most interested me, and, in the hope of being a useful companion, often a few more. But my chief wish (as always in this series) has been to create a taste.
For the history of Venice the reader must also go elsewhere, yet for the sake of clarity a little history has found its way even into these pages. To go to Venice without first knowing her story is a mistake, and doubly foolish because the city has been peculiarly fortunate in her chroniclers and eulogists. Mr. H.F. Brown stands first among the living, as Ruskin among the dead; but Ruskin is for the student patient under chastisement, whereas Mr. Brown's serenely human pages are for all. Of Mr. Howells' Venetian Life I have spoken more than once in this book; its truth and vivacity are a proof of how little the central Venice has altered, no matter what changes there may have been in
government or how often campanili fall. The late Col. Hugh Douglas's Venice on Foot, if conscientiously followed, is such a key to a treasury of interest as no other city has ever possessed. To Mrs. Audrey Richardson's Doges of Venice I am greatly indebted, and Herr Baedeker has been here as elsewhere (in the Arab idiom) my father and my mother.
E.V.L.
June, 1914.
CONTENTS
- page
- viiPreface
- CHAPTER I
- 1The Bride of the Adriatic
- CHAPTER II
- 6S. Mark's. I: The Exterior
- CHAPTER III
- 17S. Mark's. II: The Interior
- CHAPTER IV
- 31The Piazza and the Campanile
- CHAPTER V
- 46The Doges' Palace. I: The Interior
- CHAPTER VI
- 65The Doges' Palace. II: The Exterior
- CHAPTER VII
- 78The Piazzetta
- CHAPTER VIII
- 91The Grand Canal. I: From the Dogana to the Palazzo Rezzonico, Looking to the Left
- CHAPTER IX
- 100The Grand Canal. II: Browning and Wagner
- CHAPTER X
- 110The Grand Canal. III: From the Rio Foscari to S. Simeone, Looking to the Left
- CHAPTER XI
- 119The Grand Canal. IV: From the Station to the Mocenigo Palace, Looking to the Left
- CHAPTER XII
- 130The Grand Canal. V: Byron in Venice
- CHAPTER XIII
- 143The Grand Canal. VI: From the Mocenigo Palace to the Molo, Looking to the Left
- CHAPTER XIV
- 151Island Afternoons' Entertainments. I: Murano, Burano and Torcello
- CHAPTER XV
- 162On Foot. I: From the Piazza to San Stefano
- CHAPTER XVI
- 168The Accademia. I: Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese
- CHAPTER XVII
- 179The