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120 THIRD PERIOD.
the other body of tradesmen must be allowed to have had no
small share in the honor of the victory.
§ xiii. But whatever doubt attaches to the particular circumstances of its origin, there is none respecting the splendor
of the festival itself, as it was celebrated for four centuries
afterwards. We find that each contrada spent from 800 to
1000 zecchins in the dress of the " Maries" entrusted to it;
but I cannot find among how many contrade the twelve Maries
were divided; it is also to be supposed that most of the
accounts given refer to the later periods of the celebration of
the festival. In the beginning of the eleventh century, the
good Doge Pietro Orseolo II. left in his will the third of his
entire fortune " per la Festa della Marie;" and, in the fourteenth century, so many people came from the rest of Italy to
see it, that special police regulations were made for it, and the
Council of Ten were twice summoned before it took place.*
The expense lavished upon it seems to have increased till the
year 1379, when all the resources of the republic were required
for the terrible war of Chiozza, and all festivity was for
that time put an end to. The issue of the war left the Yenetians with neither the power nor the disposition to restore the
festival on its ancient scale, and they seem to have been
ashamed to exhibit it in reduced splendor. It was entirely
abolished.
§ xiv. As if to do away even with its memory, every feature of the surrounding scene which was associated with that
festival has been in succeeding ages destroyed. With one solitary exception,! there is not a house left in the whole Piazza
of Santa Maria Formosa from whose windows the festa of the
Maries has ever been seen: of the church in which they worshipped, not a stone is left, even the form of the ground and
direction of the neighboring canals are changed ; and there is
now but one landmark to guide the steps of the traveller to
the place where the white cloud rested, and the shrine was
* "XV. diebus et octo diebus ante festum Mariarum omni anno."—Galliciolli. The same precautions were taken before the feast of the Ascension.
t Casa Vittura.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000134 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 120 THIRD PERIOD. the other body of tradesmen must be allowed to have had no small share in the honor of the victory. § xiii. But whatever doubt attaches to the particular circumstances of its origin, there is none respecting the splendor of the festival itself, as it was celebrated for four centuries afterwards. We find that each contrada spent from 800 to 1000 zecchins in the dress of the " Maries" entrusted to it; but I cannot find among how many contrade the twelve Maries were divided; it is also to be supposed that most of the accounts given refer to the later periods of the celebration of the festival. In the beginning of the eleventh century, the good Doge Pietro Orseolo II. left in his will the third of his entire fortune " per la Festa della Marie;" and, in the fourteenth century, so many people came from the rest of Italy to see it, that special police regulations were made for it, and the Council of Ten were twice summoned before it took place.* The expense lavished upon it seems to have increased till the year 1379, when all the resources of the republic were required for the terrible war of Chiozza, and all festivity was for that time put an end to. The issue of the war left the Yenetians with neither the power nor the disposition to restore the festival on its ancient scale, and they seem to have been ashamed to exhibit it in reduced splendor. It was entirely abolished. § xiv. As if to do away even with its memory, every feature of the surrounding scene which was associated with that festival has been in succeeding ages destroyed. With one solitary exception,! there is not a house left in the whole Piazza of Santa Maria Formosa from whose windows the festa of the Maries has ever been seen: of the church in which they worshipped, not a stone is left, even the form of the ground and direction of the neighboring canals are changed ; and there is now but one landmark to guide the steps of the traveller to the place where the white cloud rested, and the shrine was * "XV. diebus et octo diebus ante festum Mariarum omni anno."—Galliciolli. The same precautions were taken before the feast of the Ascension. t Casa Vittura. |
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