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A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER XIII
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Venice is the best place in the world, and they are in Venice, and there you are! Why lose one's temper?
Next the Casa Falier is a calle, and then the great Giustinian Lolin Palace with brown and yellow posts.

Taglioni lived here for a while too.
Another calle, the Giustinian, a dull house with a garden and red and white striped posts, and we are at the Iron Bridge and the Campo S.
Vitale, a small poor-people's church, with a Venetian-red house against it, and inside, but difficult to see, yet worth seeing, a fine picture by Carpaccio of a saint on horseback.
The magnificent palace in good repair that comes next is the Cavalli, with a row of bronze dragons on the facade.

This is the home of the Franchetti family, who have done so much for modern Venice, conspicuously, as we have seen, at the Ca d'Oro.

Then the Rio dell'Orso o Cavana, and the Palazzo Barbaro with its orange and red striped posts, a beautiful room in which will be familiar to all visitors to the Diploma Gallery at Burlington House, for it is the subject of one of Mr.
Sargent's most astounding feats of dexterity.

It is now the Venetian home of an American; and once no less a personage than Isabella d'Este lived in it very shortly after America was discovered.


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