[58] Sir Henry Wotton told the Doge that the blow was struck by a Scotchman, who used to hang about the English embassy. [59] The writer of the “History of the Council of Trent” is placed by Ranke second to Macchaevelli alone as an Italian historian. Mazzini, in an essay published in vol. iv. of his collected works, claims that Sarpi was the real discoverer of the circulation of the blood. [60] So indelible an impression was made by the long struggle on the popular mind, that the locution, a _vera guerra di Candia_, to express bitter personal enmity was common in Byron’s time. [61] The incidents of this, a nobler chapter than any of the foregoing in Venetian history, may be read in Mr Bolton King’s “History of United Italy,” 2 vols., Nisbet, 1899. [62] Macigno is a hard sandstone. [63] Later researches have brought into prominence the name of Pietro Basseggio, who is now believed to have designed the earlier S. façade of the Palace. [64] Il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. [65] In early times architecture, sculpture, and engineering were branches of the same profession. Michel Angelo worked for six months at San Miniato on the fortifications of Florence. [66] _Arch. Stor. Ital._ vol. vii. p. 674. [67] Now assigned to Marc’ Antonio Gambello and Moro Coducci. [68] The present façade is the result of alterations by Scamozzi in 1610. [69] See Plate 72 in the Dream of Poliphilus, called the Hypnerotomachia, published in Venice by Aldus, 1499, reproduced by the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, 1888. [70] See Berenson’s “Lorenzo Lotto,” chap. ii., sec. vii., revised ed., 1901. [71] The Pietà, and the Transfiguration in the Correr Museum. [72] The ivy-leaved toadflax. [73] It has again been exalted to a prominent position in Room X. [74] Morelli, however, classes it among Titian’s early productions. [75] See “XIXth Century and After,” 1902, p. 156, where H. Cook gives reasons for believing the painter to have been but 86 years of age at his death in 1576. [76] Morelli, _Italian Masters in German Galleries_, translated by Mrs Richter, pp. 184-94. [77] _Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen._ Berlin, vols. xxii. and xxiii., 1901-1902. [78] “Marietta or the Maid of Venice.” [79] Goldoni’s grandfather was a native of Modena: _Il Burbero Benefico_ was first performed at Paris and subsequently translated into Italian. [80] Now assigned to Moro Coducci of Bergamo. [81] The Ducal Palace is not built on piles, but rests on a stratum of stiff clay. [82] Sanudo. [83] _Italiæ brevis Descriptio_, Ultrajecti, 1650. [84] “Letters of an Architect from France, Italy and Greece,” by Joseph Woods, 1828, vol. i., p. 256, _et seq._ [85] Unhappily most of the old Greek marbles have been replaced by inferior Carrara. It was once proposed by the restorers to varnish and smoke the S. façade, to imitate the rich colours which the mellowing effect of time has given to the original incrustations. [86] Left of the spectator.