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VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 301
the state prisons, the senate-house, and the offices of public
business; in other words, it was Buckingham Palace, the
Tower of olden days, the Houses of Parliament, and Downing
Street, all in one; and any of these four portions might be
spoken of, without involving an allusion to any other. " II
Palazzo" was the Ducal residence, which, with most of the
public offices, Mocenigo did propose to pull down and rebuild,
and which was actually pulled down and rebuilt. But the
new Council Chamber, of which the whole facade to the Sea
consisted, never entered into either his or Sanuto's mind for
an instant, as necessarily connected with the Ducal residence.
I said that the new Council Chamber, at the time when
Mocenigo brought forward his measure, had never yet been
used. It was in the year 1422* that the decree passed to rebuild the palace : Mocenigo died in the following year,f and
Francesco Foscari was elected in his room. The Great Council Chamber was used for the first time on the day when
Foscari entered the Senate as Doge,—the 3rd of April, 1423,
according to the Caroldo Chronicle; J the 23rd, which is probably correct, by an anonymous MS., No. 60, in the Correr
Museum ; §—and, the following year, on the 27th of March,
the first hammer was lifted up against the old palace of Ziani. j|
§ xxv. That hammer stroke was the first act of the period
properly called the "Renaissance." It was the knell of the
architecture of Venice,—and of Venice herself.
* Vide notes in Appendi
\ On the 4th of April, 1423, according to the copy of the Zancarol Chronicle in the Martian Library, but previously, according to the Caroldo
Chronicle, which makes Foscari enter the Senate as Doge on the 3rd of
April.
X "Nella quale (the Sala del Gran Consiglio) non si fece Gran Consiglio
salvo nell' anno 1423, alii 3 April, et fu il primo giorno che il Duce Foscari
venisse in Gran Consiglio dopo la sua creatione."—Copy in Martian Library,
p. 365.
§ " E a di 23 April (1423, by the context) sequente fo fatto Gran ConseiO
in la salla nuovo dovi avantl non esta piu fatto Gran Conseio si che el primo
Gran Conseio dopo la eua (Foscari's) creation, fo fatto in la salla nuova, nel
qual conseio fuelMarchese di Mantoa," &c, p. 426.
U Compare Appendix 1, Vol. IH
| 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 | 00000345 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 301 the state prisons, the senate-house, and the offices of public business; in other words, it was Buckingham Palace, the Tower of olden days, the Houses of Parliament, and Downing Street, all in one; and any of these four portions might be spoken of, without involving an allusion to any other. " II Palazzo" was the Ducal residence, which, with most of the public offices, Mocenigo did propose to pull down and rebuild, and which was actually pulled down and rebuilt. But the new Council Chamber, of which the whole facade to the Sea consisted, never entered into either his or Sanuto's mind for an instant, as necessarily connected with the Ducal residence. I said that the new Council Chamber, at the time when Mocenigo brought forward his measure, had never yet been used. It was in the year 1422* that the decree passed to rebuild the palace : Mocenigo died in the following year,f and Francesco Foscari was elected in his room. The Great Council Chamber was used for the first time on the day when Foscari entered the Senate as Doge,—the 3rd of April, 1423, according to the Caroldo Chronicle; J the 23rd, which is probably correct, by an anonymous MS., No. 60, in the Correr Museum ; §—and, the following year, on the 27th of March, the first hammer was lifted up against the old palace of Ziani. j| § xxv. That hammer stroke was the first act of the period properly called the "Renaissance." It was the knell of the architecture of Venice,—and of Venice herself. * Vide notes in Appendi \ On the 4th of April, 1423, according to the copy of the Zancarol Chronicle in the Martian Library, but previously, according to the Caroldo Chronicle, which makes Foscari enter the Senate as Doge on the 3rd of April. X "Nella quale (the Sala del Gran Consiglio) non si fece Gran Consiglio salvo nell' anno 1423, alii 3 April, et fu il primo giorno che il Duce Foscari venisse in Gran Consiglio dopo la sua creatione."—Copy in Martian Library, p. 365. § " E a di 23 April (1423, by the context) sequente fo fatto Gran ConseiO in la salla nuovo dovi avantl non esta piu fatto Gran Conseio si che el primo Gran Conseio dopo la eua (Foscari's) creation, fo fatto in la salla nuova, nel qual conseio fuelMarchese di Mantoa," &c, p. 426. U Compare Appendix 1, Vol. IH |
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