Next is the Rio S.Maurizio and then two dingy Barbarigo palaces, with shabby brown posts, once the home of a family very famous in Venetian annals.

Marco Barbarigo was the first Doge to be crowned at the head of the Giants' Stairs; it was while his brother Agostino was Doge (1486-1501) that Venice acquired Cyprus, and its queen, Caterina Corner, visited this city to abdicate her throne.

Cardinal Barbarigo, famous not only for his piety but for refusing to become Pope, was born in this house.
Then the Rio S.Maria Zobenigo o dei Furlani and a palace, opposite the steamboat station.

Another palace, and then a busy traghetto, with vine leaves over its shelter, and looking up the campo we see the church of S.Maria del Giglio with all its holy statues.

Ruskin (who later moved to the Zattre) did most of his work on _The Stones of Venice_ in the house which is now the Palazzo Swift, an annexe of the Grand Hotel, a little way up this campo.