[104] Titian's _Assumption_, one of the most renowned of existing pictures, was discovered by Count Cicognara in the church of the Frari, for which it had been painted as an altar-piece. It was restored and removed to the _Accademia di Belle Arti_, where it still hangs.--T. [105] Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin and eleventh Earl of Kincardine (1766-1841) was British Envoy to Constantinople from 1799 to 1802. Between 1801 and 1803, he removed to England from Athens the so-called Elgin marbles, comprising the bulk of the surviving plastic decoration of the Parthenon, executed under the direction of Phidias about 440 B.C. These stolen goods were purchased by the nation in 1816 and are now in the British Museum.--T. [106] Tommaso Mocenigo, Doge from 1414 to 1423; Giovanni Mocenigo, Doge from 1475 to 1485; and Luigi Mocenigo, Doge from 1570 to 1577, are all buried in Santi Giovanni e Paolo.--T. [107] Michele Morosini, Doge of Venice for a few months in 1382.--T. [108] Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (_d._ 1478), became Doge in 1476.--T. [109] Seventeen doges in all are buried in Santi Giovanni e Paolo or "Zanipolo," as the Venetians pronounce it.--B.. [110] Marco Antonio Bragadino (_d._ 1571), flayed alive by the Turks after his valiant defense of Famagusta, in Cyprus.--T. [111] Angelo Emo (1731-1792), the last of the Venetian admirals. He bombarded Tunis and forced it to sign a truce with the Republic--T. [112] Cary's DANTE: _Hell_, Canto XXI. 7-15.--T. [113] Henry IV. defeated the Leaguers at Ivry-la-Bataille on the 14th of March 1590.--T. [114] Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) started on his second polar expedition in 1821 and his third in 1824. These two expeditions, neither of which was specially successful, are referred to by Chateaubriand on page 136 of Vol. I. of the Memoirs. A later expedition, by way of Spitsbergen, was likewise unsuccessful. From 1823 to 1829, Parry was Acting Hydrographer to the Navy. In 1852, he was made a rear-admiral and, in 1853, Governor of Greenwich Hospital.--T. [115] St. Christopher (_fl._ 3rd Century) is said to have lived in Syria and to have been of prodigious height and strength. As a penance for having been a servant of the devil, he devoted himself to the task of carrying pilgrims across a river where there was no bridge. Christ came to the river one day in the form of a child and asked to be carried over, but His weight grew heavier and heavier till His bearer was nearly broken down in the midst of the stream. When they reached the shore: "Marvel not," said the Child, "for with Me thou hast borne the sins of the world." St. Christopher is usually represented as bearing the Infant Christ and leaning upon a staff. He was martyred under the Emperor Decius _circa_ 250. The Church celebrates the Feast of St. Christopher on the 25th of July.--T. [116] The Isola di San Michele contains the modern burying-ground of Venice.--T.