[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XI 14/20
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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