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Thomas Okey. Venice and Its Story
Venice and Its Story
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I.—THE STORY
CHAPTER I. The Foundation at Rialto
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV. Enrico Dandolo and the Capture of Constantinople
CHAPTER V. Peace and War—The Holy Inquisition—Conflict with the Genoese—Loss of Constantinople
CHAPTER VI. The Duel with Genoa—The Closing of the Great Council
CHAPTER VII. The Oligarchy—Commercial supremacy—The Bajamonte Conspiracy—The Council of the Ten—The Prisons
CHAPTER VIII. Conquests on the Mainland—Execution of Marin Faliero—The Fall of Genoa
CHAPTER IX. Aggression on the Mainland—Arrest and Execution of Carmagnola—The Two Foscari
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII. THE FINE ARTS AT VENICE. Masons—Painters—Glass-workers—Printers
PART II
SECTION I. Arrival—The Piazza
SECTION II. The Basilica of St Mark
SECTION III. The Ducal Palace
SECTION IV. The Accademia
SECTION V. The Grand Canal and S. Georgio Maggiore
SECTION VI
SECTION VII. The Frari—The Scuola and Church of S. Rocco
SECTION VIII
SECTION IX
SECTION X. S. Salvatore—Corte del Milione—S. Giovanni Grisostomo
SECTION XI. S. Moisè—S. Stefano—Site of the Aldine Press—Il Bovolo—S. Vitale—S. Vio—The Salute—The Seminario
SECTION XII
SECTION XIII
SECTION XIV
SECTION XV. Giudecca—The Redentore—S. Trovaso
SECTION XVI. Palazzo Labia—S. Giobbe—The Ghetti—Gli Scalzi
SECTION XVII. Titian’s House—S. Michele in Isola—Murano
SECTION XVIII. Torcello—S. Francesco del Deserto
SECTION XIX. S. Nicolo del Lido
SECTION XX. Chioggia
L’ENVOI
APPENDIX I. List of Doges
APPENDIX II. Bibliography
INDEX
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Thomas Okey
Published by Good Press, 2021
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CLOISTER OF S. FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA
There was an old tradition among the early settlers at Rialto that St Mark on his way from Alexandria to preach the Faith in Aquileia was caught in a violent storm and forced to land on one of the Rialtine islands where now stands the Church of S. Francesco della Vigna. As he stepped forth from his bark an angel saluted him saying: “Pace a te Marco Evangelista mio” (Peace to thee Mark my Evangelist), and announced that one day his body should find a resting-place and veneration at Rialto. Traditions like prophecies have a way of bringing their own fulfilment, and in the brief reign of Angelo’s son Giustiniani (827-829) some Venetians trading with the infidels in defiance of imperial prohibition succeeded in stealing the Evangelist’s body and carrying it to Venice. The story of “how the precious body of Monsignor S. Marco came to Venice” is thus told by Da Canale. “Now at this time there was a ship of the Venetians at Alexandria on which were three valiant men. The one called Messer Rustico of Torcello, the other Messer Buono of Malamocco, the third Messer Stauracio; which three valiant men had great hope and devotion to bring the body of S. Marco to Venice, and they so got round (s’en alerent tant autour) the guardian of the body that having won his friendship they said to him, Messer, if thou wilt come with us to Venice and bear away the body of Monsignor S. Marco thou shalt become a rich man. And when he, who was called Theodore, heard this he answered: Sirs, hold your peace, say not so, that may not be in any wise, for the pagans hold it more precious than aught else in the world, and if they espied us would surely cut off our heads. Then said they, wait until the blessed Evangelist command thee. And it came to pass that there entered into the heart of this worthy guardian a desire to bear away the body, and he came back to them saying: Sirs, how can we take away Monsignor S. Marco without the knowledge of any man? And one answered: Right wisely will we do it. And they went hastily by night to the sepulchre where the body was and put it in a basket and covered it with cabbages and swine’s flesh, and they took another body, laid it in the tomb in the very same cloth from which the body of Monsignor S. Marco had been taken and sealed the tomb as it was before. And the valiant men bore the body to the ship in that same basket as I have told of, and for dread of the pagans slung it to a mast of their ship. What shall I tell you? At that very moment when they opened the tomb so sweet and so great an odour spread through the midst of the city that all the spiceries in Alexandria could not have caused the like. Wherefore the pagans said: Mark is stirring, for they were wont to smell such fragrance every year. Nevertheless there were of them who misdoubted and went to the tomb and opened it and seeing the body I have told of in St Mark’s shroud were satisfied. And some there were who came to the ship and searched it about, but when they saw the swine’s flesh by the mast did straightly flee from the ship crying, Kanzir! Kanzir! which is to say, Pork! Pork! Now the wind was fair and strong, and they set sail for Venice and on the third day came by Romania (Greece). And a mighty wind arose by night when the mariners were sleeping, and the ship was driving on to the rocks; but the precious Evangelist awakened the master mariner and said to him: Look that thou set down the sails, for we are making for the land. And the master awakened the shipmen and they struck the sails. And if anyone will know the truth let him come to Venice and see the fair Church of Monsignor S. Marco, and look in front of this fair church, for there is inscribed all this story even as I have related it, and likewise he will gain the great pardon of vii. years which Monsignor the Apostle (the Pope) granted to all who should go to that fair church.”
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