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players, or even a knot of pilgrimis on their
way fromthe Three Kings of Cologne t0 St.
James of Compostella¬its crawling vorage
past the simmer-palaces of the Venctian
nobility that lined the reed-fringed banks
of the Brenta. To have put out to sea to
seckacity, to be passing as in dream throngh
streets of water that washed against marble,
to know that this was by common consent
the new* Sybaris of Europe“ whiere night
was as day and the domino ruled for Six
months out of the twelve, was to feel already¬
that revolution of values, that thrill of dis¬
guise which makes the quintessence of
Carnival.
The whole antique façade of the Venetian
State as it had stood in the days of the
Republic’s vigour and glory was still dis¬
played to the eyes of the curions visitor.
Even the quizzical glance of Goethe, as late
as 1786, lost a little of its sharpness when he
saw the Doge and his train disembark from
their barges of State for the High Mass at
St. Justina.
First the full violet dresses of the Savii sthe¬
Sages entrusted with the ministerial port¬
folios], next the ample red robes ofthe Senators
are unfolded upon the pavement, and lastly
when the old Doge, adorned with his golden
Phrygian cap, in his long golden fular and his
ermine cloak, steps out of the vessel—when ali
this, I say, takes place in a little square before
the portal of a church, one feels as if one were
looking at an old worked tapesiry, exccedingly
well designed and coloured.
In these shoes and robes had stepped the
men under whose rule the Republie had
planted the Lion on the cities of Dalmatia,
dug its claws into the ferra #ima of the Piave
and Adige provinces, filled the Adriatie and
the Mediterranean with its commerce, sent
the long lines of its caravans far into Asin,
sacked Constantinople to wrest from its own
suzerain, the Roman Emperor, a quarter of
his domain, and stood growling at bay in the
end before infuriated Europe leagued against
it at Cambray. The Lion’s wings were
clipped now, and other policies prevailed.
To encourage idleness and luxury in the
nobility, says Addison agreeably,“to
cherish ignorance and licentiousness in the
lergy, to keep alive a continual faction in
the common people.. to breed dissen¬
sions among the nobles of the Terra Firma,?
such are become #the refined parts of
Venetian wisdom.? The Doge might still
be clothed in the mystic dignity that made
him, as it were, both Prince and Pontiff—.
in both völes the audacious double of the
Emperor at Byzantium. He might still, go
forth on Ascension Day in the gilt and
carpeted Bucentaur (if the weather forecast
made it safe) to wed his Adriatie bride:
Desponsamus te, mare, in signum veri per¬
petuique domintt. He might still be attended
with canopy and lights, let loose the flight of
doves on Palmn Sunday from his balcony, andi,
like the Pope, wash the feet of twelve poor
fishermen. What lag beneath the sumptuons
pageoutry? Himself the mere instrument of
the Ducal Councillors set to guard him, he
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admissions boughit br gold. In thie Schate
there is voting on a grave affair of State.
The great gaming house, the Ridlotto, mlist
be closed. and several noble croupiers will
lose a prized position. In the Collegio the
Sages debate administration. The Arny.
with an Austrian martinet in command.
makes a better show of uniforms than of
weapons. Suits of armour, old swords,
obsolete firelocks, enemmber the arsenals;
but at least the Republie has the secret of
an imperishable biscuit, a specimen of
whlich, dating from 1669, was dug up intact
in 1821. Nothing coulel be more resplendent
thau the Admirals, in their full-bottomed
wigs, long trains, laced coats and velvet
breeches; but at thie great arsenal, a Freuch
traveller notes, the shipwrights amuse thein¬
selves nearly all day without working.
But men, whetherthey work or play, mnust be
governed; and, as in past centuries, the real
Power over Venice was wielded still by those
formidable appendices to the Constitution,
che Ten und the Thrce. h. Cnmeil of Ten,
originally appointed after the great Tiepoline
conspiracy of the fourteenth century to
watch over the safety of the State, now
wrestled in secret with an infinity of affairs;
with the problem of preserving a perfect
neutrality, with the riddle of reviving by
alternate doses of protection and freedom
a moribund trade that nothing could save
after thie fatal discovery of the Cape route;
and then (by way of relief), with the pro¬
priety of allowing only black gondolas as a
check on extravagance; with the diameter
of skirts; or with the drafting of a decree
of expulsion against a certain actress who
was responsible for the foreign ambassadors'
wasting too much of their time. Even
more industrious, emblazoned with an even
more flamboyant secrecy, were the labours
of the Three Inquisitors of State. In the
Palace, beneath the leads where their prisoners
were lodged, they sat, the Red Conncillor
one 0
throug
between thetwe Blacks, and considered in an
fact t
atmosphere of close mystery how to stop the
abominable language of the boatmen; what
if enz
were 1
action to take on the report of“ our familiar,
1
the Abate A. P., that a philosophie dictionary
Sure
in French was on sale in a bookshop near
1
1
San Samuele; whether or not Signor Piero
Antonio Gratarol, Secretary to the Senate,
had been lampooned in Connt Carlo Gozzi’s
comedy II Droghe d’Amore; and, if so,
whiether, in view of the affection felt for the
playwright by Signora Catarina Dolfin¬
Tron, the wite of the Procuratore di San
Marco, it mighé not be wisest to let that
again
eighite
hothead Gratarol do something foolish that
would allow the Tribunal to proceed against
him rather than thie other. Laws became a
1
mockery if they could be broken without

somebody being punished. In the good old
days there had been less roundabout methods
and no
for the disposal of nuisances; indeed one
epoch,
If wei
understood that still in that cupboard up¬
stairs
but no one knew the right
whio
accenti
there should be
dose äny longer
dles ins
a minute, though, somewhere in the files.
suite d
One had last made an attempt of the kind
in 1767 when that man was giving so much
this ph
trouble in the Balkans. From the doors
in M. 0
tion to
that closed in these dread deliberations
there flappedi forth to execute the decrees
ition
C
the funereal silhouette of the Captain of the
publish
an“ in
Archers, Cristofolo Cristofoli—that terrible
script i
Messer Grande, the shadow of whose hooked
nose and sable cloak was enough to quell a
riot on tlie Piazza, and to set the whole
brotherhood of rogues, quacks and masons
shivering.
I
The hundred eyes of Messer Grande,
of von
the gliding police-gondola of his allies, the version
pupj