[83] Giovanni Bellini (_post_1427-1516), the founder of the Venetian School of painting and the greatest of the fifteenth-century artists. Titian and Giorgione were both his pupils.--T. [84] Paride Bordone (_circa_ 1500-1571), one of Titian's greatest pupils.--T. [85] Jacopo Palma the Elder( _circa_ 1480-1528) and Jacopo Palma the Younger (_circa_ 1544-1628), uncle and nephew.--T. [86] Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) settled in Venice and presented the city with his library (1362).--T. [87] George Gemistus Pletho (_b._ 1390), the celebrated Byzantine Platonic philosopher and scholar.--T. [88] Johannes Cardinal Bessarion (1395-1472), Archbishop of Nicæa (1437), a cardinal (1439), Archbishop of Siponto and Bishop of Sabina and Tusculum, and Patriarch of Constantinople (1463). Bessarion was a disciple of Plethon and author of, among many other works of Platonic philosophy, the famous _Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis_ (1469).--T. [89] Or Acre: 1104.--T. [90] 1176.--T. [91] 1124.--T. [92] 10 October 1571.--T. [93] The so-called Grand Sanhedrim of 1806 was a council summoned by Napoleon for the 20th of October of that year, consisting of representatives of the chief synagogues of France, Italy and Europe. The object of its deliberations was to point out to the Government means of enabling the Jews to participate in the civil and political rights of England, by modifying such of their habits and doctrines as kept them isolated from their fellow-citizens. The sittings of the Grand Sanhedrim, which consisted of 71 members, opened on the 9th of February and ended on the 9th of March 1807. The most notable clause, from Napoleon's point of view, in the solemn public declaration issued on the latter date, is that dispensing Jews who are performing military service from all religious observances that are irreconcilable with such military service.--T. [94] Leopoldo Conte Cicognara (1767-1834), a distinguished diplomatist and antiquarian. He became President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice in 1812. His principal work, the _Storia della Scultura_, was published in 1813-1818.--T. [95] It is clear to my eyes that the ogive, whose so-called mysterious origin men go so far to seek, was born casually of the intersection of two semicircular arches; therefore it is found everywhere. Later architects have done no more than release it from the designs in which it originally figured.--_Author's Note._ [96] See the previous note.--_Author's Note._ [97] Bartolommeo Gamba (1780-1841), a learned Italian bibliographer and biographer. His chief work is the _Serie dell' Edizioni dei Testi di Lingua Italiana_ (1812-1828).--T. [98] Fra Mauro (_fl._ 15th Century), a monk of the Camaldule Order, who drew his famous map of the world between 1457 and 1459.--T. [99] Here for instance, is Charles Dickens' lurid description of the _Pozzi_, or Prisons, which he pretends to see in a dream: