[39] {123}[Pietro Loredano, admiral of the Venetian fleet, died November 11, 1438. His death was sudden and suspicious, for he was taken with violent pains and spasms after presiding at a banquet in honour of his victories over the Milanese; and, when his illness ended fatally, it was remembered that the Doge had publicly declared that so long as the admiral lived he would never be _de facto_ Prince of the Republic. Jacopo Loredano chose to put his own interpretation on this outburst of impatience, and inscribed on his father's monument in the Church of the Monastery of Sant' Elena, in the Isola della Santa Lena, the words, "Per insidias hostium veneno sublatus." (See _Ecclesiæ Venetæ_, by Flaminio Cornaro, 1749, ix. 193, 194; see, too, Cicogna's _Inscrizioni Veneziane_, 1830, iii. 381.) Not long afterwards Marco Loredano, the admiral's brother, met with a somewhat similar fate. He had been despatched by the X. to Legnano, to investigate the conduct of Andrea Donate, the Doge's brother-in-law, who was suspected of having embezzled the public moneys. His report was unfavourable to Donato, and, shortly after, he too fell sick and died. It is most improbable that the Doge was directly or indirectly responsible for the death of either brother; but there was an hereditary feud, and the libellous epitaph was a move in the game.] [40] {124}[Daru gives Palazzi's _Fasti Ducales_ and _L'Histoire Vénitienne_ of Vianolo as his authorities for this story.] [au]4 ----_checked by nought_ _The vessel that creaks_----.--[MS. M. erased.] [av] {125} ----_much pity_.--[MS. M. erased.] [41] ["This whole episode in the private life of the Foscari family is valuable chiefly for the light it throws upon the internal history of Venice. We are clearly in an atmosphere unknown before. The Council of Ten is all-powerful; it even usurps functions which do not belong to it by the constitution. The air is charged with plots, suspicion, assassination, denunciation, spies,--all the paraphernalia which went to confirm the popular legend as to the terrible nature of the _Dieci_."--_Venice, etc._, by Horatio F. Brown, 1893, p. 305.] [aw] {126} _In this brief colloquy, and must redeem it_.--[MS. M.] [42] [Compare-- "And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers." _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza clxxxiv. lines 1-4, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 461, note 2.] [43] {127}[The climate of Crete is genial and healthy; but the town of Candia is exposed to winds from the north and north-west.] [ax] _I see your colour comes_.--[MS. M.] [44] {130}["She was a Contarini (her name was Lucrezia, not Marina)-- 'A daughter of the house that now among Its ancestors in monumental brass Numbers eight Doges.'