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A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER XI
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The bedroom of Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo is shown: his elaborate cradle with a stork presiding over it, surely a case of _trop de zele_; pretty yellow painted furniture; and a few pictures, including a fine horseback portrait by Moretto, a Cima, a Giovanni Bellini, and the usual Longhis.
But it is the riotous little spirits of the vintage that remain in the mind.
After the Michiel dalle Colonne is a little newish house and the Gothic Palazzo Michiel da Brusa with blue posts with yellow stripes, rather overweighted with balconies but having nice ironwork; and then the comfortable-looking Mangilli Valmarana with blue posts with red and white tops, and the Rio dei SS.

Apostoli with a view of the campanile along it.

Next a dull white building with flush windows, and next that the fine and ancient Palazzo da Mosto.

This house has many old sculptured slabs worked into the facade, and it seems a great pity that it should so have fallen from its proper state.

An ugly modern iron balcony has been set beneath its Gothic windows.


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