[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XI 20/20
After the rio, the fine blackened Corner Spinelli with porphyry insets.
At the steamboat station of S.Angelo are new buildings--one a very pretty red brick and stone, one with a loggia--standing on the site of the Teatro S.Angelo. After the Rio S.Angelo we come to a palace which I always admire: red brick and massive, with good Gothic windows and a bold relief of cupids at the top.
It is the Garzoni Palace and now an antiquity dealer's. A calle and traghetto next, a shed with a shrine on its wall, a little neat modern house and the Palazzo Corner with its common new glass, and we are abreast the first of the three Mocenigo palaces, with the blue and white striped posts and gold tops, in the middle one of which Byron settled in 1818 and wrote _Beppo_ and began _Don Juan_ and did not a little mischief..
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