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APPENDIX, 4. 211
the tumults in Paris could be settled no otherwise than by fighting them out in the Gallery of the Louvre.
4. DATE OF THE PALACES OF THE BYZANTINE RENAISSANCE.
In the sixth article of the Appendix to the first volume, the
question of the date of the Casa Dario and Casa Trevisan was
deferred until I could obtain from my friend Mr. Rawdon
Brown, to whom the former palace once belonged, some more
distinct data respecting this subject than I possessed myself.
Speaking first of the Casa Dario, he says: "Fontana dates
it from about the year 1450, and considers it the earliest specimen of the architecture founded by Pietro Lombardo, and followed by his sons, Tullio and Antonio. In a Sanuto autograph
miscellany, purchased by me long ago, and which I gave to St.
Mark's Library, are two letters from Giovanni Dario, dated 10th
and 11th July, 1485, in the neighborhood of Adrianople; where
the Turkish camp found itself, and Bajazet II. received presents
from the Soldan of Egypt, from the Schah of the Indies (query
Grand Mogul), and from the King of Hungary: of these matters, Dario's letters give many curious details. Then, in the
printed Malipiero Annals, page 136 (which err, I think, by a
year), the Secretary Dario's negotiations at the Porte are alluded
to; and in date of 1484 he is stated to have returned to Yenice,
having quarrelled with the Venetian bailiff at Constantinople:
the annalist adds, that ' Giovanni Dario was a native of Candia,
and that the Republic was so well satisfied with him for having
concluded peace with Bajazet, that he received, as a gift from his
country, an estate at Noventa, in the Paduan territory, worth
1500 ducats, and 600 ducats in cash for the dower of one of his
daughters.' These largesses probably enabled him to build his
house about the year 1486, and are doubtless hinted at in the
inscription, which I restored a.d. 1837; it had no date, and
ran thus, urbis . genio . joannes . darivs. In the Venetian
history of Paolo Morosini, page 594, it is also mentioned, that
Giovanni.Dario was, moreover, the Secretary who concluded the
shells had reached to within a hundred yards of St. Mark's Church itself,
at the time of the capitulation.
| 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 | 00000229 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPENDIX, 4. 211 the tumults in Paris could be settled no otherwise than by fighting them out in the Gallery of the Louvre. 4. DATE OF THE PALACES OF THE BYZANTINE RENAISSANCE. In the sixth article of the Appendix to the first volume, the question of the date of the Casa Dario and Casa Trevisan was deferred until I could obtain from my friend Mr. Rawdon Brown, to whom the former palace once belonged, some more distinct data respecting this subject than I possessed myself. Speaking first of the Casa Dario, he says: "Fontana dates it from about the year 1450, and considers it the earliest specimen of the architecture founded by Pietro Lombardo, and followed by his sons, Tullio and Antonio. In a Sanuto autograph miscellany, purchased by me long ago, and which I gave to St. Mark's Library, are two letters from Giovanni Dario, dated 10th and 11th July, 1485, in the neighborhood of Adrianople; where the Turkish camp found itself, and Bajazet II. received presents from the Soldan of Egypt, from the Schah of the Indies (query Grand Mogul), and from the King of Hungary: of these matters, Dario's letters give many curious details. Then, in the printed Malipiero Annals, page 136 (which err, I think, by a year), the Secretary Dario's negotiations at the Porte are alluded to; and in date of 1484 he is stated to have returned to Yenice, having quarrelled with the Venetian bailiff at Constantinople: the annalist adds, that ' Giovanni Dario was a native of Candia, and that the Republic was so well satisfied with him for having concluded peace with Bajazet, that he received, as a gift from his country, an estate at Noventa, in the Paduan territory, worth 1500 ducats, and 600 ducats in cash for the dower of one of his daughters.' These largesses probably enabled him to build his house about the year 1486, and are doubtless hinted at in the inscription, which I restored a.d. 1837; it had no date, and ran thus, urbis . genio . joannes . darivs. In the Venetian history of Paolo Morosini, page 594, it is also mentioned, that Giovanni.Dario was, moreover, the Secretary who concluded the shells had reached to within a hundred yards of St. Mark's Church itself, at the time of the capitulation. |
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