Before the fall there were five bells, of which only the greatest escaped injury.

The other four were taken to a foundry set up on the island of Sant'Elena and there fused and recast at the personal cost of His Holiness the late Pope, who was Patriarch of Venice.

I advise no one to remain in the belfry when the five are at work.

They begin slowly and with some method; they proceed to a deafening cacophony, tolerable only when one is far distant.
There are certain surprises in the view from the campanile.

One is that none of the water of the city is visible--not a gleam--except a few yards of the Grand Canal and a stretch of the Canale della Giudecca; the houses are too high for any of the by-ways to be seen.