Next a very tiny pretty little Tron Palace; then a second Tron, and then the dreary Martinengo, now the Bank of Naples.

In its heyday Titian was a frequent visitor here, its owner, Martino d'Anna, a Flemish merchant, being an intimate friend, and Pordenone painted its walls.
Another calle and traghetto and we come to a very commonplace house, and then, after a cinematograph office and another calle, to the Palazzo Benzon, famous a hundred years ago for its literary and artistic receptions, and now spruce and modern with more of the striking blue posts, the most vivid on the canal.

In this house Byron has often been; hither he brought Moore.

It is spacious but tawdry, and its plate-glass gives one a shock.

Then the Rio Michiel and then the Tornielli, very dull, the Curti, decayed, and the Rio dell'Albero.