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302 SECOND PERIOD.
The central epoch of her life was past; the decay had
already begun: I dated its commencement above (Ch. I. Vol.
1.) from the death of Mocenigo. A year had not yet elapsed
since that great Doge had been called to his account: his
patriotism, always sincere, had been in this instance mistaken;
in his zeal for the honor of future Venice, he had forgotten
what was due to the Venice of long ago. A thousand palaces
might be built upon her burdened islands, but none of them
could take the place, or recall the memory, of that which was
first built upon her unfrequented shore. It fell; and, as if it had
been the talisman of her fortunes, the city never flourished again.
§ xxvi. I have no intention of following out, in their intricate details, the operations which were begun under Foscari
and continued under succeeding Doges till the palace assumed
its present form, for I am not in this work concerned, except
by occasional reference, with the architecture of the fifteenth
century : but the main facts are the following. The palace of
Ziani was destroyed; the existing facade to the Piazzetta built,
so as both to continue and to resemble, in most particulars, the
work of the Great Council Chamber. It was carried back
from the Sea as far as the Judgment angle; beyond which is
the Porta della Carta, begun in 1439, and finished in two years,
under the Doge Foscari; * the interior buildings connected
with it were added by the Doge Christopher Moro (the Othello
of Shakspeare) f in 1462.
§ xxvii. By reference to the figure the reader will see that
we have now gone the round of the palace, and that the new
work of 1462 was close upon the first piece of the Gothic
palace, the new Council Chamber of 1301. Some remnants of
* "Tutte queste fatture si compirono sotto il dogadodel Foscari, nel
1441."—:Pareri, p. 131.
\ This identification has been accomplished, and I think conclusively, by
my friend Mr. Rawdon Brown, who has devoted all the leisure which, during the last twenty years, his manifold offices of kindness to almost every
English visitant of Venice have left him, in discovering and translating the
passages of the Venetian records which bear upon English history and literature. I shall have occasion to take advantage hereafter cf a portion of his
labors, which I trust will shortly be made public.
| 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 | 00000346 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 302 SECOND PERIOD. The central epoch of her life was past; the decay had already begun: I dated its commencement above (Ch. I. Vol. 1.) from the death of Mocenigo. A year had not yet elapsed since that great Doge had been called to his account: his patriotism, always sincere, had been in this instance mistaken; in his zeal for the honor of future Venice, he had forgotten what was due to the Venice of long ago. A thousand palaces might be built upon her burdened islands, but none of them could take the place, or recall the memory, of that which was first built upon her unfrequented shore. It fell; and, as if it had been the talisman of her fortunes, the city never flourished again. § xxvi. I have no intention of following out, in their intricate details, the operations which were begun under Foscari and continued under succeeding Doges till the palace assumed its present form, for I am not in this work concerned, except by occasional reference, with the architecture of the fifteenth century : but the main facts are the following. The palace of Ziani was destroyed; the existing facade to the Piazzetta built, so as both to continue and to resemble, in most particulars, the work of the Great Council Chamber. It was carried back from the Sea as far as the Judgment angle; beyond which is the Porta della Carta, begun in 1439, and finished in two years, under the Doge Foscari; * the interior buildings connected with it were added by the Doge Christopher Moro (the Othello of Shakspeare) f in 1462. § xxvii. By reference to the figure the reader will see that we have now gone the round of the palace, and that the new work of 1462 was close upon the first piece of the Gothic palace, the new Council Chamber of 1301. Some remnants of * "Tutte queste fatture si compirono sotto il dogadodel Foscari, nel 1441."—:Pareri, p. 131. \ This identification has been accomplished, and I think conclusively, by my friend Mr. Rawdon Brown, who has devoted all the leisure which, during the last twenty years, his manifold offices of kindness to almost every English visitant of Venice have left him, in discovering and translating the passages of the Venetian records which bear upon English history and literature. I shall have occasion to take advantage hereafter cf a portion of his labors, which I trust will shortly be made public. |
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