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diff --git a/42998-h/42998-h.htm b/42998-h/42998-h.htm index 7654486..ec53f98 100644 --- a/42998-h/42998-h.htm +++ b/42998-h/42998-h.htm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Venice, by Mortimer Menpes. @@ -149,47 +149,7 @@ td {padding-left: 1em; </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Venice, by Dorothy Menpes - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Venice - -Author: Dorothy Menpes - -Illustrator: Mortimer Menpes - -Release Date: June 20, 2013 [EBook #42998] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VENICE *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42998 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -236,7 +196,7 @@ BY THE SAME AUTHOR</p> <p class="center">: BY MORTIMER MENPES :<br /> TEXT BY DOROTHY MENPES<br /> PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND<br /> -CHARLES BLACK·LONDON·W</p> +CHARLES BLACK·LONDON·W</p> <div class="figright p2"> <img src="images/illo_007.jpg" width="59" height="56" alt="Logo" /> @@ -771,7 +731,7 @@ could only give one aspect of her. The pictures of Venice by Venetian masters are chiefly of her <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span> pomp and glory, her State functions and her water -fêtes. However, one finds marvellous glimpses of +fêtes. However, one finds marvellous glimpses of landscape work in some of the great masterpieces—sweeps of sky above the heads of some of the Madonnas, skies in which one can feel the shimmer @@ -870,7 +830,7 @@ full of rays and mists; the coming and going of gondolas or galiots; the landing-place of the Piazzetta, with its Gothic lanterns ornamented by figures of the saints, fixed on poles and sunk -into the sea; the vermilion façade of the Ducal +into the sea; the vermilion façade of the Ducal Palace, lozenged with white and rose marble, its massive pillars supporting a gallery of small columns. With all this one has been familiar @@ -1155,7 +1115,7 @@ Veneti, from whom the Venetians take their name, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span> drove in their first stakes and built their wattled walls, they could not have foretold that this was -to be the greatest of mediæval republics, the +to be the greatest of mediæval republics, the centre of the commerce of Europe. Nature helped Venice handsomely. Had the channels been deeper, men-of-war might have entered and @@ -1953,7 +1913,7 @@ when a big picture was sold, the restaurant was very festive: the artist had a dinner-party, to which everyone had been invited. But generally it was a small water-colour that was sold, and the party -went off to a small café down by a side canal. +went off to a small café down by a side canal. There was one man who got himself up to look like King Charles, and he was King Charles to the life! Long hair rested on his shoulders, and an @@ -2053,7 +2013,7 @@ sleeping peasants in their rags—what a contrast!</p> from these dark groups to the jewellers' shops and the huge windows full of glittering Venetian glass! To see the gaily-dressed crowds sipping their -coffee outside Florian's famous café that had never +coffee outside Florian's famous café that had never been closed during three hundred years! Here was nothing but brightness and gaiety. An excellent band played in the middle of the piazza. Smartly-dressed @@ -2152,7 +2112,7 @@ Renaissance compositions, of no decorative value, incongruous with the general scheme. Nevertheless, the church as a whole, as I have said, still remains essentially Byzantine. The main fabric -of the façade represents the original Byzantine +of the façade represents the original Byzantine Romanesque building, and is in almost every particular similar to the picture of the church given in the thirteenth-century mosaic. The @@ -2224,7 +2184,7 @@ Renaissance.</p> <p>One gleans a very good idea by means of these palaces of how extremely civilised and peaceful Venice must have been at that early period. In -northern Europe the homes of mediæval nobles +northern Europe the homes of mediæval nobles were dark and gloomy castles built mainly for defence, having single heavy oak doors studded with nails, and great iron gates and drawbridges; @@ -2255,7 +2215,7 @@ are palaces of all periods, from the Byzantine time to the eighteenth century, and all are palaces of the ancient Venetian nobility. The Grand Canal is to Venice what the Strand is to London and the -Rue St. Honoré to Paris. It is the most wonderful +Rue St. Honoré to Paris. It is the most wonderful street in the world. There is nothing so bizarre, so fairy-like, to be seen in any other city through the length and breadth of the globe. It is a @@ -2658,7 +2618,7 @@ fading out into a pale shadow of what it had once been. That glorious art, which had once been so superb in the hands of the masters, sank into the execution of feigned architecture, false perspective, -and fictitious grand façades, with bad statues in +and fictitious grand façades, with bad statues in unreal relief. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a></span> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a></span> @@ -3067,7 +3027,7 @@ everything that made life pleasant. Naturally, they wanted colour. And Venice was not affected by that wave of science which swept over the rest of Italy. The Venetians were not at all -absorbed in literature and archæology. They +absorbed in literature and archæology. They wanted merely to be joyous. This was an ideal atmosphere for the painter. Such a condition of things could not but create a fine artistic period. @@ -3345,7 +3305,7 @@ credit and added so greatly to her fame. Even although the noise of his genius was echoed all over the world,—although the great Emperor himself stooped to pick up his brush, declaring -that a Titian might well be served by a Cæsar,—although +that a Titian might well be served by a Cæsar,—although Charles the Fifth sat to him repeatedly, and maintained that he was the only painter whom he would care to honour,—the Venetians do not @@ -4148,7 +4108,7 @@ in Venice for the cost of a garret in London. There is no real home-life in Venice. Rich and poor, mothers, fathers, children, and servants,—all take their food in the open air. There are restaurants -and cafés for the well-to-do, endless eating-houses +and cafés for the well-to-do, endless eating-houses for the poorer classes, and sausage-makers for the gondoliers. Cookshops swarm. There you see great piles of fish and garlic, bowls of broth, @@ -4288,7 +4248,7 @@ finches in cages, and roses and pinks in pots.</p> <p>At mid-day the streets are enveloped in a warm golden light; there are rich old browns, orange yellows, and burnt siennas—all the tints of a gorgeous -wall-flower. A ray of sun in a bric-à-brac +wall-flower. A ray of sun in a bric-à -brac shop attracts your attention; and you get a peep through a window with cobwebbed panes, high up in a flesh-coloured wall, at some of the objects @@ -4449,7 +4409,7 @@ be thronged with heads thrust out to chatter.</p> <p>Venice is divided up into campi or squares. Each campo has a church, a butcher, a baker, a candlestick-maker, and everything else that is -necessary to life, including a café and a market. +necessary to life, including a café and a market. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">146</a></span></p> <p>Venetian children, as a rule, are very badly @@ -4877,10 +4837,10 @@ those verses the last of which runs:—</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poem"> -<p>À Saint Blaise, à la Zuecca,</p> -<p>Dans les prés fleuris cuellir la verveine;</p> -<p>À Saint Blaise, à la Zuecca,</p> -<p>Vivre et mourrir là.</p> +<p>À Saint Blaise, à la Zuecca,</p> +<p>Dans les prés fleuris cuellir la verveine;</p> +<p>À Saint Blaise, à la Zuecca,</p> +<p>Vivre et mourrir là .</p> </div></div> <div class="figcenter p6"><a name="i-402" id="i-402"></a> @@ -4899,12 +4859,12 @@ canal a group of small vessels lie all day long at anchor—twenty or thirty of them, laden with wood brought from the Istrian coast, and sold in Venice. When it has been disposed of, the captain calls his -crew from the distant cafés and wine-shops, releases +crew from the distant cafés and wine-shops, releases the watch-dog from his post on deck, weighs anchor, and creeps down the Adriatic to reload again with fuel. This is all the Venetian commerce of to-day—this and a few beads, glass, wood-carving, -lace, and bric-à-brac, such as would scarcely load a +lace, and bric-à -brac, such as would scarcely load a modern trading-ship. Nine hundred years ago the trade of Venice was important. By the close of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">164</a></span> @@ -5169,7 +5129,7 @@ but it was very little used. The carnival, which was wont to last for six weeks, was kept up but a single night; and then it was a farcical show. Only a few dressed-up beggars tore through -the streets, singing songs at the cafés for drinks, +the streets, singing songs at the cafés for drinks, and they were looked upon by the crowd with melancholy scorn.</p> @@ -5286,12 +5246,12 @@ summer,—played gloriously all the best Italian airs. Much as they loved music, the Venetians walked up and down the quay, or in the arcades. They would not enter the square until the music -was finished. Such was their pride! The cafés had +was finished. Such was their pride! The cafés had no longer their gay and lively reputation. Only at Florian's did the Austrians and the Venetians sometimes intermingle—and that was because of the foreigners. Usually the Venetians had their -separate cafés, and the Austrians theirs—the +separate cafés, and the Austrians theirs—the Quadri and the Specchi.</p> <p>The piazza of St. Mark's seems to be the very @@ -5301,9 +5261,9 @@ in Venice, and go on walking, you will be sure to find your way back to the piazza sooner or later. At eight o'clock the piazza was at its very gayest. Nothing could be more lively, more amusing. It -was lined with cafés—the cafés "Suttil," "Quadri," +was lined with cafés—the cafés "Suttil," "Quadri," "Costanza," and "Florian"; which last reminds one -very much of the "Café Royal" in Paris, and was +very much of the "Café Royal" in Paris, and was certainly quite as famous. The old proprietor of this restaurant was greatly patronised by the Venetian nobility, who were loud in their praises both of @@ -5353,17 +5313,17 @@ either talking volubly or deadly quiet; Greeks, with long bluish-black hair floating out behind them, and caps with silk top-knots (these were captains of small vessels coming from Cyprus and -Syria, and they went to the Café della Costanza, +Syria, and they went to the Café della Costanza, where they could procure mocha and the pipe they loved best); and young Venetian gentlemen who spent their lives for the most part in drifting from -one café to another, generally handsome, well-dressed +one café to another, generally handsome, well-dressed men with immaculate linen and pointed beards carefully cut, carrying long canes, and the lightest of kid gloves (their main object seemed to be to stare at all the pretty women); and Austrians, smart, good-natured people, who frequented their -own cafés, with much talk and laughter and rattling +own cafés, with much talk and laughter and rattling of swords. Now and then one saw Venetian women of the upper classes on the piazza, but very rarely. They were extremely indolent and lazy, @@ -5380,7 +5340,7 @@ which was extremely delicate, a sort of pearly whiteness. Sometimes she would take a turn or two in the piazza with her husband or brother as cavalier, and languidly sip anise and water at the -Café Florian.</p> +Café Florian.</p> <p>For the most part the ancient aristocracy of Venice lived in retirement and were very poor. @@ -5592,7 +5552,7 @@ Peter—to the home of an old fisherman celebrated for his fish dinners. This fisherman's cottage is just as celebrated in Venice as the Trafalgar Hotel in London, or the Ship Tavern at Greenwich, or -La Rapée in Paris. Here, however, is a more +La Rapée in Paris. Here, however, is a more picturesque environment—boats drawn up on the yellow sand, nets stretched to dry in the sun, planks forming a landing-place in front of the houses—all @@ -5610,7 +5570,7 @@ children.</p> </div> <p>One finds on one's travels that each city has its -local and peculiar dish—Marseilles its "bouille à +local and peculiar dish—Marseilles its "bouille à baisse"; Venice its "soupe au pidocchi"—mussels, gathered in the lagoons and canals, flavoured with spices and aromatic herbs. Personally, I would @@ -6288,7 +6248,7 @@ smaller than those of ordinary use. The Grand Canal was crowded with boats of all sizes—sandolas, barche, barchette, tipos, cavaline, vigieri, bissoni,—there is no end to the variety of Venetian craft. -The façades of the palaces fluttered with flags, +The façades of the palaces fluttered with flags, tapestries, carpets, and curtains,—anything that would add to the general mass of colour. 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