[136] The palace of the Camerlenghi, beside the Rialto, is a
graceful work of the early Renaissance (1525) passing into Roman
Renaissance. [Adapted from Ruskin.]
[137] Signifying approximately "Keep to the right."
[138] See note 1, p. 129.
[139] _Childe Harold_, 4. 1.
[140] _Marino Faliero_, 3. 1. 22 ff.
[141] Dandolo [c. 1108-1205] and Foscari [1372-1457] were among the
most famous of Venetian Doges.
[142] In the battle of Custozza, 1848, the Austrians defeated the
Piedmontese.
ST. MARK'S
VOLUME II, CHAPTER 4
"And so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus." If as the shores
of Asia lessened upon his sight, the spirit of prophecy had entered
into the heart of the weak disciple who had turned back when his hand
was on the plough, and who had been judged, by the chiefest of Christ's
captains, unworthy thenceforward to go forth with him to the work,[143]
how wonderful would he have thought it, that by the lion symbol in
future ages he was to be represented among men! how woful, that the
war-cry of his name should so often reanimate the rage of the soldier,
on those very plains where he himself had failed in the courage of the
Christian, and so often dye with fruitless blood that very Cypriot Sea,
over whose waves, in repentance and shame, he was following the Son of
Consolation!
That the Venetians possessed themselves of his body in the ninth
century, there appears no sufficient reason to doubt, nor that it was
principally in consequence of their having done so, that they chose him
for their patron saint.
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