Chapter M: E. Braddon (4)

I was born at Venice, in the year 1707, in a large and beautiful house between the bridges of _Nomboli_ and _Donna Onesta_, at the corner of the street _Cà cent’anni_, in the parish of St. Thomas. Julius Goldoni, my father, was born in the same city; but all his family were of Modena.

Venice is so extraordinary a city, that it is impossible to form a correct idea of it without seeing it. Maps, plans, models, and descriptions, are insufficient; it must be seen. All other cities bear more or less resemblance to one another, but Venice resembles none; and every time I have seen it after a long absence, it has been a new subject of astonishment and surprise for me. As I advanced in years, and my knowledge increased and furnished me with more numerous objects of comparison, I ever discovered new singularities and new beauties in it.

But I then saw it as a youth of fifteen, who could not be supposed to be struck with what in reality was the most remarkable, and who could only compare it with the small towns which he had lived in. What I was most astonished at was the surprising view which it presents on a first approach. On seeing the extent of small islands so close together and so admirably connected by bridges, we imagine we behold a continent elevated on a plain, and washed on every side by an immense sea which surrounds it.

This is not the sea, but a very extensive marsh more or less covered with water, at the mouth of several ports, with deep canals which admit large and small vessels into the town and its environs. If you enter by the quarter of St. Mark through a prodigious quantity of vessels of every description, ships of war, merchantmen, frigates, galleys, barks, boats, and gondolas, you land at the Piazzetta where in one direction you see the palace and the ducal church, which announce the magnificence of the republic, and in another, the place or square of St. Mark, surrounded with porticos from designs by Palladio and Sansovino.

In going through the streets where haberdashery goods are sold, you tread on flags of Istrian marble, carefully roughened by the chisel to prevent them being slippery. The whole quarter is a perpetual fair till you arrive at the bridge of a single arch, ninety feet in breadth, over the great canal, which, from its elevation, allows the passage of barques and boats in the highest tides, which offer three different roads to passengers, and which upholds twenty-four ships with lodgings, the roofs of which are covered with lead....

In Italy, their places of public amusement are called theatres. There are seven in Venice, each bearing the name of the titular church of its parish. The theatre of St. John Chrysostom was then the first in the town, where the grand operas were represented, where Metastasio opened his dramatical, and Farinello, Faustine, and Cozzoni their musical career. At present, the theatre of St. Benedict is highest in rank. The five other are St. Samuel, St. Luke, St. Angelo, St. Cassian, and St. Moses. Of these seven, two generally are dedicated to grand operas, two to comic operas, and three to plays.... There are none of them which have not had works of mine, and which have not contributed both to my honour and profit.

CARLO GOLDONI (1707-1793).

THE ROMANCE OF VENICE

If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice.
SHAKESPEARE.

AT VENICE

So now she stands by Glory’s great sea-grave
And has the first fair vision of that shrine
Where it lies sainted with its smile divine,
Rubied in sunset, em’ralded in wave;
Where the stones whisper of the masques they gave
Of argosy and pageant, line on line;
Till we are drunk with splendour as with wine
In that broad street which molten beryls pave.

I wonder if she thinks of me at whiles,
Or only of the dim Byzantine gold
And time-stained fronts, and seaweed-covered piles?
And if a corner of her heart doth hold
Something besides a dream of the crowned isles
That ruled the sunrise and its waves of old?

EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON.

THE GOLDEN BOOK OF VENICE

The Golden Book[5]
Is now unwritten in, and stands unmoved,
Save when the curious traveller takes down
A random volume, from the dusty shelf,
To trace the progress of a bruited name;
The Bucentaur
Is shattered, and of its resplendent form
There is no remnant, but some splintered morsel,
Which in his cabin, as a talisman
Mournfully hangs the pious gondolier;
The Adrian sea
Will never have a Doge to marry more,--
The meagre favours of a foreign lord
Can hardly lead some score of humble craft
With vilest merchandise into the port
That whilom held the wealth of half a world.
Thy palaces
Are bartered to the careful Israelite,--
Or left to perish, stone by stone, worn down
In desolation, solemn skeletons,
Whose nakedness some tufts of pitying grass,
Or green boughs trembling o’er the tumbling wall,
Adorn but hide not.
And are these things true.
Miraculous Venice? Is the charm then past
Away from thee? Is all thy work fulfilled
Of power and beauty? Art thou gathered
To the dead cities? Is thy ministry
Made up, and folded in the hand of Thought?
Ask him who knows the meaning and the truth
Of all existence;--ask the poet’s heart:
The Book has no dead tome for him,--for him
Within St. Mark’s emblazoned porticoes
Thy old nobility are walking still;
The lowliest gondola upon thy waters
Is worth to him thy decorated galley;
He never looks upon the Adrian sea
But as thy lawful tho’ too faithless spouse;
And when, in the sad lustre of the moon,
Thy palaces seem beautifully wan,
He blesses God that there is left on earth
So marvellous, so full an antidote,
For all the racks and toils of mortal life,
As thy sweet countenance to gaze upon.

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

[5] Il Libro d’Oro, the Venetian Peerage.

TO AN OLD VENETIAN WINEGLASS

ROSE-COLOURED AT THE BRIM

Daughter of Venice, fairer than the moon!
From thy dark casement leaning, half divine,
And to the lutes of love that low repine
Across the midnight of the hushed lagoon,
Listening with languor in a dreamful swoon--
On such a night as this thou didst entwine
Thy lily fingers round this glass of wine,--
Didst clasp thy climbing lover--none too soon!
Thy lover left, but ere he left thy room
From this he drank, his warm lips at the brim;
Thou kissed it as he vanished in the gloom,
That kiss, because of thy true love for him--
Long, long ago when thou wast in thy bloom--
Hath left it ever rosy round the rim!

LLOYD MIFFLIN.

DANTE AT THE ARSENAL AT VENICE

From bridge to bridge thus, speaking other things
Of which my Comedy cares not to sing,
We came along, and held the summit, when
We halted to behold another fissure
Of Malebolge and other vain laments;
And I beheld it marvellously dark.

As in the Arsenal of the Venetians
Boils in the winter the tenacious pitch
To smear their unsound vessels o’er again,
For sail they cannot; and instead thereof
One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks
The ribs of that which many a voyage has made;

One hammers at the prow, one at the stern,
This one makes oars, and that one cordage twists,
Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen;
Thus, not by fire, but by the art divine,
Was boiling down below there a dense pitch
Which upon every side the bank belimed.

I saw it, but I did not see within it
Aught but the bubbles that the boiling raised,
And all swell up and resubside compressed.
The while below there fixedly I gazed,
My Leader, crying out: ‘Beware, beware!’
Drew me unto himself from where I stood.

Then I turned round, as one who is impatient
To see what it behoves him to escape,
And whom a sudden terror doth unman,
Who, while he looks, delays not his departure;
And I beheld behind us a black devil,
Running along upon the crag, approach.

Ah, how ferocious was he in his aspect!
And how he seemed to me in action ruthless,
With open wings and light upon his feet!
His shoulders, which sharp-pointed were and high,
A sinner did encumber with both haunches,
And he held clutched the sinews of the feet.

_‘INFERNO’ (LONGFELLOW’S TRANSLATION)._

MENDELSSOHN AT VENICE

VENICE, _October 10, 1830_.

Italy at last! and what I have all my life looked forward to as the greatest possible felicity is now begun, and I am basking in it. The day has been so fruitful in enjoyment that I must, now that it is evening, endeavour to collect my thoughts a little to write to you, my dear parents, and to thank you for having bestowed such happiness on me.... I shall, however, become quite bewildered, if things are to go on as they have done on this first day, when every hour brought with it so much never to be forgotten, that I do not know where to find senses sufficient to comprehend it all properly. I saw the ‘Assumption,’ then a whole gallery of paintings in the Manfrini Palace; then a festival in the church where hangs Titian’s ‘St. Peter’; afterwards St. Mark’s, and in the afternoon I had a row on the Adriatic, and visited the public gardens, where the people lie on the grass and eat. I then returned to the Piazza of St. Mark, where in the twilight there is always an immense crowd and crush of people; and all this I was obliged to see to-day, because there is so much that is novel and interesting to be seen to-morrow.

But I must now relate methodically how I came hither by water.... In Treviso there was an illumination, paper lanterns suspended in every part of the great square, and a large gaudy transparency in the centre. Some most lovely girls were walking about, in their long white veils and scarlet petticoats. It was quite dark when we arrived at Mestre last night, when we got into a boat, and in a dead calm gently rowed across to Venice. On our passage thither, where nothing but water is to be seen, and distant lights, we saw a small rock which stands in the midst of the sea; on this a lamp was burning; all the sailors took off their hats as we passed, and one of them said, this was the ‘Madonna of Tempests,’ which are often most dangerous and violent here. We then glided quietly into the great city, under innumerable bridges, without sound of post-horns, or rattling of wheels, or tollkeepers; the passage now became more thronged, and numbers of ships lying near; past the theatre, where gondolas in long rows lie waiting for their masters, just as our own carriages do at home, then into the great canal, past the church of St. Mark, the Lions, the palace of the Doges, and the Bridge of Sighs. The obscurity of night only enhanced my delight on hearing the familiar names and seeing the dark outlines.

And so I am actually in Venice! Only think: to-day I have gazed upon the finest pictures in the world, and have at last personally made the acquaintance of a very admirable man, whom hitherto I only knew by name--I allude to a certain Signor Giorgione, a splendid fellow--and also to Pardenone, who displays the most noble pictures, and portrays both himself and many of his simple scholars, in such a devout, faithful, and pious spirit, that you seem to converse with and grow fond of him. Who would not have been confused by all this? But if I am to speak of Titian, I must do so in a more reverent mood. Till now, I never knew that he was the felicitous artist I have this day seen him to be. That he thoroughly enjoyed life, in all its beauty and fulness, the picture in Paris proves; but he has fathomed the depths of human sorrow, as well as the joys of Heaven. His glorious ‘Entombment,’ and also the ‘Assumption,’ fully evince this. How Mary floats on the cloud, while an actual _air_ seems to pervade the whole picture; how you see at a glance her very breathing, her awe, her devotion, and in short a thousand feelings,--all words seem poor and commonplace in comparison. The three heads of angels too, on the right of the picture, are of the highest order of beauty,--pure, serene loveliness, so unconscious, so bright and so seraphic. But no more of this! or I must perforce become poetical, if I be not so already, and that is a mood which does not at all suit me. I shall certainly see that picture every day.... What a man that Titian was! Everyone must be edified by his works, as I shall try to be, and I rejoice that I am in Italy. At this moment the gondoliers are shouting to each other, and the lights are reflected in the depths of the waters; one man is playing a guitar, and singing to it. It is a charming night. Farewell! and think of me in every happy hour as I do of you.--FELIX.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY.

SHELLEY IN VENICE

WRITTEN TO MARY SHELLEY

We shall travel hence within a few hours, with the speed of the post.... We have now got a comfortable carriage, and two mules, and, thanks to Paolo, have made a very decent bargain, comprising everything to Padua. I should say we had delightful fruit for breakfast, figs, very fine, and peaches, unfortunately gathered before they were ripe, whose smell was like what one fancies of the wakening of Paradise flowers.... I came from Padua [to Venice] in a gondola, and the gondolier, among other things, without any hint on my part, began talking of Lord Byron. He said he was a _giovinotto Inglese_, with a _nome stravagante_, who lived very luxuriously, and spent great sums of money. This man, it seems, was one of Lord B.’s gondoliers.... These gondolas are the most beautiful and convenient boats in the world. They are finely carpeted and furnished with black, and painted black. The couches on which you lean are extraordinarily soft, and are so disposed as to be the most comfortable to those who lean or sit. The windows have at will either Venetian plate-glass flowered, or Venetian blinds, or blinds of black cloth to shut out the light.... I called on Lord Byron: he was delighted to see me. He took me in his gondola across the lagoon to a long sandy island, which defends Venice from the Adriatic. When we disembarked, we found his horses waiting for us, and we rode along the sands of the sea, talking. Our conversation consisted in histories of his wounded feelings, and questions as to my affairs, and great professions of friendship and regard for me.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

THE VENETIAN SERENADE

When along the light ripple the far serenade
Has accosted the ear of each passionate maid,
She may open the window that looks on the stream,--
She may smile on her pillow and blend it in dream;
Half in words, half in music, it pierces the gloom,
‘I am coming--Stalì--but you know not for whom,
Stalì--not for whom!’

Now the tones become clearer,--you hear more and more
How the waters divided return on the oar,--
Does the prow of the gondola strike on the stair?
Do the voices and instruments pause and prepare?
Oh! they faint on the ear as the lamp on the view,
‘I am passing--Premì--but I stay not for you!
Premì--not for you!’

Then return to your couch, you who stifle a tear,--
Then awake not, fair sleeper--believe he is here;
For the young and the loving no sorrow endures,
If to-day be another’s, to-morrow is yours;--
May, the next time you listen, your fancy be true,
‘I am coming--Sciàr--and for you and to you!
Sciàr--and to you!’

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

FAREWELL TO VENICE

If I had been an unconnected man,
I, from this moment, should have formed some plan
Never to leave sweet Venice: for to me
It was delight to ride by the lone sea:
And then the town is silent--one may write,
Or read in gondolas by day or night,
Having the little brazen lamp alight,
Unseen, uninterrupted:--books are there,
Pictures, and casts from all those statues fair
Which were twin-born with poetry;--and all
We seek in towns, with little to recall
Regret for the green country....
But I had friends in London too....
--The following morning, urged by my affairs,
I left bright Venice.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Albini, Enrico, 341

Aldersey, Laurence, 353

Andersen, Hans, 17, 67, 237, 266

Anon., 135

Ashley, J., 362

Beaconsfield, Lord, 99, 131, 235, 305

Beckford, William, 72, 214, 228

Bell, Mackenzie, 224

Bowles, Fred. G., 339

Braddon, M. E., 2, 262

Brooke, Stopford A., 90, 186, 197, 309, 311

Brown, Horatio F., 76, 108

Browning, Robert, 121, 136, 190

Byron, Lord, 19, 108, 119, 145, 232, 260, 313

Carpenter, J. E., 29

Casola, Canon Pietro, 348

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 148, 304, 315

Coryat, Thomas, 23, 62, 171, 263, 291

Crawford, Francis Marion, 3, 304, 341

D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 134, 333, 344

Dante, 375

Dickens, Charles, 239

D’Israeli, Isaac, 162

Duclaux, Madame, 315

Eden, F., 233

Eliot, George, 57

Evelyn, John, 232, 296, 367

Goethe, 134, 149, 206, 364

Goldoni, Carlo, 368

Gray, David, 14

Harrington, John, 66

Hemans, Mrs., 35, 38, 153

Henderson, May Sturge, 108, 109, 111

Houghton, Lord (Richard Monckton Milnes), 5, 52, 134, 146, 212, 220,
290, 373, 380

Howell, James, 39, 62, 177, 185

Howells, W. D., 96, 221, 325

Hunt, Leigh, 234

James, Henry, 322

Jameson, Mrs., 299

Johnson, R. U., 55

Landor, Walter Savage, 2

Lee, Vernon, 256, 301, 340

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene, 373

Lewkenor, Sir Lewes, 355

Lindsay, Lady, 108, 110, 337

Longfellow, H. W., 9, 375

Lowell, James Russell, 255

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 345

Mackay, Charles, 344

Mendelssohn, 376

Meredith, Owen, 113

Mifflin, Lloyd, 53, 237, 284, 375

Milnes, Richard Monckton. See _Houghton, Lord_

Molmenti, Pompeo, 279

Montagu, Lady M. W., 271

Moore, Thomas, 211, 224

Morandi, Cesare, 131

Moryson, Fynes, 357

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 2, 10, 276

Musset, Alfred de, 46, 209

Negri, Antonio, 116

Newett, B.A., Margaret, 348

Oliphant, Mrs., 7

Ouida, 2, 188, 338

Pinkerton, Percy, 198, 208, 284, 310, 331

Piozzi, Mrs., 37, 165

Radcliffe, Mrs., 103

Reade, Charles, 48

Ritchie, Lady (Thackeray, Anne), 120, 226

Robinson, A. Mary F., 315

Rogers, Samuel, 30, 151

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 280

Ruskin, John, 77, 78, 128, 154, 172, 180, 209, 226, 281, 288, 330,
344

Sand, George, 33, 66, 158, 159, 166, 270, 278, 304, 323, 326

Sandys, George, 363

Schiller, 170

Sélincourt, Beryl de, 108, 109, 111

Shakespeare, 2, 372

Shelley, P. B., 69, 91, 379, 381

Spencer, Edw., 66, 357

Sullivan, Alan, 56

Swift, Baroness, 116

Symons, Arthur, 114, 126, 134, 316, 317, 320

Symonds, John Addington, 2, 74, 144, 193, 198, 202, 247, 278, 318

Thackeray, Anne. See _Ritchie, Lady_

Trollope, T. Adolphus, 249

Vacaresco, Hélène, 339

Vasari, 285

Wordsworth, William, 363, 366

Yriarte, Charles, 66, 116, 123, 129, 134, 227, 306

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE SOURCE OF EXTRACT AUTHOR PAGE

Addressed to Venice ‘Sonnets’ _J. Ashley_ 362

A Dream in a Gondola ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 146

A First Impression in
Venice ‘The Improvisatore’ _Hans Andersen_ 237

A Gondolier of Chioggia ‘La Denière Aldini’ _George Sand_ 166

À la Zuecca ‘Poems’ _Alfred de Musset_ 209

All Souls’ Day at Venice ‘The Enchanted
Woods’ _Vernon Lee_ 340

An Improvisatore ‘The Improvisatore’ _Hans Andersen_ 266

An Island Visit ‘Italy’ _William Beckford_ 214

A Peerless City ‘The Cloister and
the Hearth’ _Charles Reade_ 48

A Pilgrim’s Description
of Venice ‘A Pilgrimage to _Canon Pietro Casola_
Jerusalem in (_translated by
the Year 1494’ Margaret M.
Newett, B.A._) 348

April in Venice ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 326

A Reverie in Venice ‘Childe Harold’ _Lord Byron_ 19

A Rialto Scene ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 227

A Sea-View ‘Poems’ _Antonio Negri_ 116

A Toccata of Galuppi’s ‘Poems’ _Robert Browning_ 190

A Tour round Venice with
Goldoni ‘Studies of the
Eighteenth
Century in
Italy’ _Vernon Lee_ 256

At Sunset ‘Adriatica’ _Percy Pinkerton_ 310

At the Dogana ‘Poems’ _Arthur Symons_ 320

At the Lido ‘A Venetian _John Addington
Medley’ Symonds_ 202

At Venice ‘Forest Notes’ _Eugene Lee-
Hamilton_ 373

Autumn and Venice ‘The Flame of
Life’ _Gabriele
d’Annunzio_ 333

Autumn in Venice ‘Santa Barbara’ _Ouida_ 338

A Venetian Carnival ‘The Venetians’ _M. E. Braddon_ 262

A Venetian Dream ‘Pictures of
Italy’ _Charles Dickens_ 239

A Venetian Market ‘Miss Angel’ _Lady Ritchie_ 226

A Venetian Night ‘Marino Faliero’ _Lord Byron_ 313

A Venetian Pastoral ‘Poems for _Dante Gabriel
Pictures’ Rossetti_ 280

A Venetian Restaurant ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds_ 247

A Vision of Venice ‘Poems’ _David Gray_ 14

Beautiful Venice ‘Songs’ _J. E. Carpenter_ 29

Before ‘A Survey of the
City of Venice’ ‘Poems’ _James Howell_ 62

Below the Rialto: Morning ‘Modern
Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 225

Boats and Voices ‘Miss Angel’ _Lady Ritchie_ 120

Browning’s Funeral ‘Collected Poems’ _Mackenzie Bell_ 224

Browning’s Venice Quoted in ‘The _Robert Underwood
World Beautiful’ Johnson_ 55

Byron on the Grand Canal ‘Letters and
Journals of
Lord Byron’ _Thomas Moore_ 224

Dante at the Arsenal at
Venice ‘Inferno’
xxi. 1-36 _Dante_ 375

Entering Venice at
Twilight ‘The Mysteries of
Udolpho’ _Mrs. Radcliffe_ 103

‘Fabrics of Enchantment
piled to Heaven’ ‘Julian and
Maddalo’ _Percy B. Shelley_ 69

Farewell to Venice ‘Julian and
Maddalo’ _Percy B. Shelley_ 381

Fayre Venice ‘Sonnets’ _Edw. Spencer_ 357

Feeding the ‘At the Gates of
Pigeons--Venice Song’ _Lloyd Mifflin_ 237

First Impressions of
Venice ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds_ 74

From a Palace-step at
Venice ‘Sordello’ _Robert Browning_ 121

From a Venetian Balcony ‘From a Venetian
Balcony’ _Lady Lindsay_ 337

George Eliot’s Impression ‘George Eliot’s _Edited by
of Venice Life’ J. W. Cross_ 57

Giorgione’s Home ‘Modern
Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 281

Gondoliers ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 158

Gondoliers and their ‘A Journey
Songs through Italy’ _Mrs. Piozzi_ 165

Gondoliers’ Music ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 159

How Spring comes to
Venice ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 323

In a Gondola ‘Poems’ _Robert Browning_ 136

In Praise of Venice Coryat’s
‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 23

In Venice ‘Contarini Fleming’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 99

In Venice Once ‘At the Wind’s _Louise Chandler_
Will’ _Moulton_ 276

Lagoon Message ‘Adriatica’ _Percy Pinkerton_ 198

La Madonna dell’ Acqua Heath’s ‘Book of
Beauty’ _John Ruskin_ 209

Lord Byron on the Lido ‘Letters and
Journals of
Lord Byron’ _Thomas Moore_ 211

May in Venice ‘Modern
Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 330

Mendelssohn at Venice ‘Letters’ _Translated by Lady_
_Wallace_ 376

Murano ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 172

Night in the Piazza ‘Poems’ _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 315

Night in Venice ‘Venetia’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 131

Night in Venice ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds 318

On being asked for an _James Russell
Autograph in Venice ‘Poems’ Lowell_ 255

On the Extinction of the
Venetian Republic ‘Poems’ _William Wordsworth_ 366

On the Lagoons ‘Adriatica’ _Percy Pinkerton_ 208

On the Lagoons ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds_ 198

On the Zattere ‘Poems’ _Arthur Symons_ 126

Pleasant Murano Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 171

Sailing towards Venice ‘The Improvisatore’ _Hans Andersen_ 67

Salve Venetia! ‘Gleanings from _Francis Marion
Venetian History’ Crawford_ 3

San Francesco del Deserto ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 186

San Francesco della Vigna ‘Santa Barbara’ _Ouida_ 188

Scene in Venice ‘Ecclesiastical
Sonnets’ _William Wordsworth_ 363

Shelley in Venice ‘Letters’ _P. B. Shelley_ 379

Sing to Me, Gondolier ‘Poems’ _Mrs. Hemans_ 153

Society in Eighteenth- _Lady Mary Wortley
Century Venice ‘Letters’ Montagu_ 271

Some Marvels of Venice ‘An Itinerary’ _Fynes Moryson_ 357

Spectral Venice ‘Travel Pictures’ _Hans Andersen_ 17

Spring in Venice ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 325

St. George of the Greeks ‘The Sentimental
Traveller’ _Vernon Lee_ 301

Sunrise in Venice ‘Contarini Fleming’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 305

Sunset ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 311

Sunset and Venice ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 309

That Glorious City in the
Sea ‘Italy’ _Samuel Rogers_ 30

The Approach to Venice ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 77

The Balcony on the Grand
Canal ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 221

The Beautie and
Magnificence of Venice ‘The Commonwealth
and Government of
Venice’ _Sir Lewes Lewkenor_ 355

The Birth of Venetian Art ‘The Renaissance
in Italy’ _Pompeo Molmenti_ 279

The Bride of the Sea ‘The Slopes of
Helicon’ _Lloyd Mifflin_ 53

The Charm of the Gondola ‘Anon’ ‘_The Standard_’ 135

The City of Enchantment ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 96

The Colour of Venice ‘A Garden in
Venice’ _F. Eden_ 233

The Doge of Venice goes ‘Letters from
in State Italy’ _Goethe_ 364

The Enchanted Voice of ‘Modern
Venice Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 288

The Fairy Days of Venice ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 33

The Glass Furnaces of
Murano ‘Familiar Letters’ _James Howell_ 177

The Golden Book of Venice ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 373

The Glory of Colour in
Italy ‘The Liberal’ _Leigh Hunt_ 234

The Glory of St. Mark’s ‘The Diary’ _John Evelyn_ 296

The Gondola ‘Beppo’ _Lord Byron_ 145

The Gondola ‘Italy’ _Samuel Rogers_ 151

The Gondolier’s Cry ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 154

The Gondoliers of Venice ‘Curiosities of
Literature’ _Isaac D’Israeli_ 162

The Grand Canal ‘Italy’ _William Beckford_ 228

The Invitation to the ‘New and Old’ _John
Gondola Addington Symonds_ 144

The Jewelled Crown of ‘The Sea-Charm
Venice of Venice’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 90

The Legend of St. Mark ‘Sacred Art’ _Mrs. Jameson_ 299

The Lagoons’ Phantom ‘Venice’ _Beryl de Sélincourt
Spell and May
Sturge-Henderson_ 109

The Lido ‘Letters from
Italy’ _Goethe_ 206

The Lido and its Graves ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 212

The Marriage of Venice ‘Purchas his
with the Sea Pilgrimes’ _George Sandys_ 363

The Mirror of the Lagoon ‘The Sea-Charm
of Venice’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 197

The Origin of Venice ‘History of _Niccolo
Florence’ Machiavelli_ 345

The Quietude of the
Lagoon ‘Cities of Italy’ _Arthur Symons_ 114

The Songs of the
Gondoliers ‘Letters from Italy’ _Goethe_ 149

The Soul that Endures ‘Venice’ _Beryl de Sélincourt
and May
Sturge-Henderson_ 111

The Splendour of St.
Mark’s Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 291

‘The Sun of Venice going
to Sea’ ‘Modern
Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 128

The Throne of Venice ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 78

The Unweariedness of
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Venice the Enchantress ‘The Makers of
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Venice: The End of Winter ‘Nova Primavera’ _Enrico Albini_ 341

Venice: The Gem of the
World Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 62

Venice the Proud ‘Poems’ _Mrs. Hemans_ 35

Venice the Unfallen ‘Venetia’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 235

Venice under the
Starlight ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 129

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once adorn the World’ Tour on the _Richard Monckton
Continent’ Milnes_ 52

Venise ‘Poems’ _Alfred de Musset_ 46

Were Life but as the
Gondola ‘Poems’ _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 148

Written at Venice ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 5

Youth in Venice ‘The Two Foscari’ _Lord Byron_ 119

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