The remainder of these followed in their boats.
The funeral barge was slowly towed by a steam launch of the Royal Navy.
The chief officers of the Municipality, the family, and many others in a crowd of gondolas, completed the procession.

San Michele was reached as the sun was setting, when the firemen again received their burden and bore it to the principal mortuary chapel." Later the municipality of Venice fixed the memorial tablet to the wall of the palace.

The quotation, from the poet, cut under his name, runs thus:-- Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, Italy.
The tablet is a graceful recognition of the devotion of Browning and his wife to their adopted country.

Did the authorities, I wonder, know that Browning's love of their city led him always to wear on his watch-chain a coin struck by Manin in 1848 commemorating the overthrow of Austrian power in Venice?
The Rezzonico was built by Longhena, the architect of the Salute.

Carlo Rezzonico, afterwards Pope Clement XIII, lived here.