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appendix, 4. 361
The Venetian verse, quoted by Mutinel^ (Annali Urbani di
Venezia, p. 153), is worth remembering.
"Del mille tresento e diese
;* A mezzo el mese delle ceriese
Bagiamonte passd el ponte
E per esso fo fatto el Consegio di diese."
The reader cannot do better than take 1297 as the date of the
beginning of the change of government, and this will enable him
exactly to divide the 1100 years from the election of "the first doge
into 600 of monarchy and 500 of aristocracy. The coincidence
of the numbers is somewhat curious; 697 the date of the establish*-
ment of the government, 1297 of its change, and 1797 of its fall.
4. S. PIETRO DI CASTELLO.
It is credibly reported to have been founded in the seventh
century, and (with somewhat less'of credibility) in a place where
the Trojans, conducted by Antenor,' 'had, after the destruction
of Troy, built " un castello, chiamato prima Troja, poscia Olivolo,
interpretato, luogo pieno." It seems that/ St. Peter appeared in
person to the Bishop of Heraclea, and commanded him to found
in his honor, a church in that spot of the rising city on the
Eialto: "ove avesse veduto una mandra di buoi e di pecore pas-
colare unitamente. Questa fu la prodigiosa origine della Chiesa
di San Pietro, che poscia, o rinovata, o ristaurata, da Orso Par-
ticipazio IV Vescovo Olivolense, divenne la Oattedrale della
Nuova citta." (Notizie Storiche delle Chiese e Monasteri di
Venezia. Padua, 1758.) What there was so prodigious in oxen
and sheep feeding together, we need St. Peter, I think, to tell
us. The title of Bishop of Castello was first taken in 1091: St.
Mark's was not made the cathedral church till 1807. 'It may be
thought'hardly fair to conclude the small importance of the old
St. Pietro di Castello from the appearance of the wretched
modernisations of 1620. But these modernisations are spoken
of as improvements; and I find no notice of peculiar beauties in
the older building, either in the work above quoted, or by Sansovino; who only says that when it was destroyed by fire (as everything in Venice was, I think, about three times in a century), in
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000419 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | appendix, 4. 361 The Venetian verse, quoted by Mutinel^ (Annali Urbani di Venezia, p. 153), is worth remembering. "Del mille tresento e diese ;* A mezzo el mese delle ceriese Bagiamonte passd el ponte E per esso fo fatto el Consegio di diese." The reader cannot do better than take 1297 as the date of the beginning of the change of government, and this will enable him exactly to divide the 1100 years from the election of "the first doge into 600 of monarchy and 500 of aristocracy. The coincidence of the numbers is somewhat curious; 697 the date of the establish*- ment of the government, 1297 of its change, and 1797 of its fall. 4. S. PIETRO DI CASTELLO. It is credibly reported to have been founded in the seventh century, and (with somewhat less'of credibility) in a place where the Trojans, conducted by Antenor,' 'had, after the destruction of Troy, built " un castello, chiamato prima Troja, poscia Olivolo, interpretato, luogo pieno." It seems that/ St. Peter appeared in person to the Bishop of Heraclea, and commanded him to found in his honor, a church in that spot of the rising city on the Eialto: "ove avesse veduto una mandra di buoi e di pecore pas- colare unitamente. Questa fu la prodigiosa origine della Chiesa di San Pietro, che poscia, o rinovata, o ristaurata, da Orso Par- ticipazio IV Vescovo Olivolense, divenne la Oattedrale della Nuova citta." (Notizie Storiche delle Chiese e Monasteri di Venezia. Padua, 1758.) What there was so prodigious in oxen and sheep feeding together, we need St. Peter, I think, to tell us. The title of Bishop of Castello was first taken in 1091: St. Mark's was not made the cathedral church till 1807. 'It may be thought'hardly fair to conclude the small importance of the old St. Pietro di Castello from the appearance of the wretched modernisations of 1620. But these modernisations are spoken of as improvements; and I find no notice of peculiar beauties in the older building, either in the work above quoted, or by Sansovino; who only says that when it was destroyed by fire (as everything in Venice was, I think, about three times in a century), in |
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