In order that the family might persist, the sole surviving son, a monk named Niccolo, was temporarily released from his vows to be espoused to the daughter of the Doge, Vitale Michiel.

Sufficient sons having been born to them, the father returned to his monastery and the mother sought a convent for herself.
In the first of the three Giustiniani palaces Mr.Howells, moving from the Casa Falier across the way, wrote his _Venetian Life_.

In the next Wagner wrote part of _Tristan and Isolda_.
Needing solitude for this task, the composer came to Venice in the autumn of 1858, and put up first at Danieli's.

Needing a more private abode he came here.

From his _Autobiography_ I take the story.