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58 FIRST PERIOD.
embellishments, much resembling the stories told respecting
the church of Murano. Thus we find it recorded by the
Santo Padre who compiled the " Vite de' Santi spettanti alle
Chiese di Venezia," * that " St. Mark having seen the people
of Aquileia well grounded in religion, and being called to
Rome by St. Peter, before setting off took with him the holy
bishop Hermagoras, and went in a small boat to the marshes
of Venice. There were at that period some houses built upon
a certain high bank called Rialto, and the boat being driven
by the wind was anchored in a marshy place, when St. Mark,
snatched into ecstasy, heard the voice of an angel saying to
him; ' Peace be to thee, Mark; here shall thy body rest.'"
The angel goes on to foretell the building of " una stupenda,
ne piu veduta Citta;" but the fable is hardly ingenious
enough to deserve farther relation.
§ in. But whether St. Mark was first bishop of Aquileia or
not, St. Theodore was the first patron of the city; nor can
he yet be considered as having entirely abdicated his early
right, as his statue, standing on a crocodile, still companions
the winged lion on the opposing pillar of the piazzetta. A
church erected to this Saint is said to have occupied, before
the ninth century, the site of St. Mark's; and the traveller,
dazzled by the brilliancy of the great square, ought not to
leave it without endeavoring to imagine its aspeet in that
early time, when it was a green field cloister-like and quiet, f
divided by a small canal, with a line of trees on each side;
and extending between the two churches of St. Theodore and
St. Geminian, as the little piazza of Torcello lies between its
" palazzo" and cathedral.
§ iv. But in the year 813, when the seat of government
was finally removed to the Rialto, a Ducal Palace, built on
the spot where the present one stands, with a Ducal Chapel
* Venice, 1761, torn. i. p. 126.
f St. Mark's Place, "partly covered by turf, and planted with a few
trees ; and on account of its pleasant aspect called Brollo or Broglio, that
is to say, Garden." The canal passed through it, over which is built the
bridge of the Malpassi. Galliciolli, lib. i. cap. viii.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 2 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000078 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 58 FIRST PERIOD. embellishments, much resembling the stories told respecting the church of Murano. Thus we find it recorded by the Santo Padre who compiled the " Vite de' Santi spettanti alle Chiese di Venezia," * that " St. Mark having seen the people of Aquileia well grounded in religion, and being called to Rome by St. Peter, before setting off took with him the holy bishop Hermagoras, and went in a small boat to the marshes of Venice. There were at that period some houses built upon a certain high bank called Rialto, and the boat being driven by the wind was anchored in a marshy place, when St. Mark, snatched into ecstasy, heard the voice of an angel saying to him; ' Peace be to thee, Mark; here shall thy body rest.'" The angel goes on to foretell the building of " una stupenda, ne piu veduta Citta;" but the fable is hardly ingenious enough to deserve farther relation. § in. But whether St. Mark was first bishop of Aquileia or not, St. Theodore was the first patron of the city; nor can he yet be considered as having entirely abdicated his early right, as his statue, standing on a crocodile, still companions the winged lion on the opposing pillar of the piazzetta. A church erected to this Saint is said to have occupied, before the ninth century, the site of St. Mark's; and the traveller, dazzled by the brilliancy of the great square, ought not to leave it without endeavoring to imagine its aspeet in that early time, when it was a green field cloister-like and quiet, f divided by a small canal, with a line of trees on each side; and extending between the two churches of St. Theodore and St. Geminian, as the little piazza of Torcello lies between its " palazzo" and cathedral. § iv. But in the year 813, when the seat of government was finally removed to the Rialto, a Ducal Palace, built on the spot where the present one stands, with a Ducal Chapel * Venice, 1761, torn. i. p. 126. f St. Mark's Place, "partly covered by turf, and planted with a few trees ; and on account of its pleasant aspect called Brollo or Broglio, that is to say, Garden." The canal passed through it, over which is built the bridge of the Malpassi. Galliciolli, lib. i. cap. viii. |
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