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APPENDIX, 1. 201
these windows, each baser than the preceding. It is not worth
troubling the reader about them, but the traveller who is interested in the subject may compare two of them in the same window ; the one nearer the sea of the two belonging to the little
room at the top of the Palace on the Piazzetta Facade, between
the Sala del Gran Consiglio and that of the Scrutinio. The seaward jamb of that window is of the first, and the opposite jamb
of the second, period of these restorations. These are all the
points of separation in date which I could discover by internal
evidence.- But much more might be made out by any Yenetian
antiquary whose time permitted him thoroughly to examine any
existing documents which allude to or describe the parts of the
Palace spoken of in the important decrees of 1340, 1342, and
1344; for the first of these decrees speaks of certain "columns
looking towards the Canal" * or sea, as then existing, and I
presume these columns to have been part of the Ziani Palace,
corresponding to the part of that palace on the Piazzetta where
were the " red columns" between which Calendario was executed;
and a great deal more might be determined by any one who
would thoroughly unravel the obscure language of those decrees.
Meantime, in order to complete the evidence respecting the
main dates stated in the text, I have collected here su'ch notices
of the building of the Ducal Palace as appeared to me of
most importance in the various chronicles I examined. I could
not give them all in the text, as they repeat each other, and
would have been tedious; but they will be interesting to the
antiquary, and it is to be especially noted in all of them how the
Palazzo Vecchio is invariably distinguished, either directly or by
implication, from the Palazzo Nuovo. I shall first translate the
piece of the Zancarol Chronicle given by Cadorin, which has
chiefly misled the Yenetian antiquaries. I wish I could put the
rich old Italian into old English, but must be content to lose its
raciness, as it is necessary that the reader should be fully acquainted with its facts.
" It was decreed that none should dare to propose to the
Signory of Yenice to ruin the old palace and rebuild it new and
more richly, and there was a penalty of one thousand ducats
* "Lata tanto, quantum est ambulum existens super columnis versus
canale respicientibus."
| 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 | 00000219 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPENDIX, 1. 201 these windows, each baser than the preceding. It is not worth troubling the reader about them, but the traveller who is interested in the subject may compare two of them in the same window ; the one nearer the sea of the two belonging to the little room at the top of the Palace on the Piazzetta Facade, between the Sala del Gran Consiglio and that of the Scrutinio. The seaward jamb of that window is of the first, and the opposite jamb of the second, period of these restorations. These are all the points of separation in date which I could discover by internal evidence.- But much more might be made out by any Yenetian antiquary whose time permitted him thoroughly to examine any existing documents which allude to or describe the parts of the Palace spoken of in the important decrees of 1340, 1342, and 1344; for the first of these decrees speaks of certain "columns looking towards the Canal" * or sea, as then existing, and I presume these columns to have been part of the Ziani Palace, corresponding to the part of that palace on the Piazzetta where were the " red columns" between which Calendario was executed; and a great deal more might be determined by any one who would thoroughly unravel the obscure language of those decrees. Meantime, in order to complete the evidence respecting the main dates stated in the text, I have collected here su'ch notices of the building of the Ducal Palace as appeared to me of most importance in the various chronicles I examined. I could not give them all in the text, as they repeat each other, and would have been tedious; but they will be interesting to the antiquary, and it is to be especially noted in all of them how the Palazzo Vecchio is invariably distinguished, either directly or by implication, from the Palazzo Nuovo. I shall first translate the piece of the Zancarol Chronicle given by Cadorin, which has chiefly misled the Yenetian antiquaries. I wish I could put the rich old Italian into old English, but must be content to lose its raciness, as it is necessary that the reader should be fully acquainted with its facts. " It was decreed that none should dare to propose to the Signory of Yenice to ruin the old palace and rebuild it new and more richly, and there was a penalty of one thousand ducats * "Lata tanto, quantum est ambulum existens super columnis versus canale respicientibus." |
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