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the most beautiful columns at present extant and erect in the conveniently visitable world.

Each of these causes of their fame I will try in some dim degree to set before you.

I said they were set there in memory of things,-not of the man who did the things. They are to Venice, in fact, what the Nelson column would be to London, if, instead of a statue of Nelson and a coil of rope, on the top of it, we had put one of the four Evangelists, and a saint, for the praise of the Gospel and of Holiness:-trusting the memory of Nelson to our own souls.

However, the memory of the Nelson of Venice, being now seven hundred years old, has more or less faded from the heart of Venice herself, and seldom finds its way into the heart of a stranger. Somewhat concerning him, though a stranger, you may care to hear, but you must hear it in quiet; so let your boatman take you across to San Giorgio Maggiore; there you can moor your gondola under the steps in the shade, and read in peace, looking up at the pillars when you like.

3. In the year 1118, when the Doge Ordeláfo Falier had been killed under the walls of Zara, Venice chose, for his successor, Domenico Michiel, Michael of the Lord, “Cattolico uomo e audace,”* a catholic and brave man, the servant of God and of St. Michael.

* Marin Sanuto. Vitæ Ducum Venetorum, henceforward quoted as V., with references to the pages of Muratori’s edition.¹

¹ [The words are quoted from vol. xxii. p. 486 of Muratori (see below). Ed. 1 adds: “See Appendix, Art. 1, which with following appendices will be given in a separate number as soon as there are enough to form one.” These appendices were never printed by Ruskin; but among his MSS. is the following beginning of the first intended Appendix:-

“I. MODES OF REFERENCE

“In the publication of this book by detached numbers it will be necessary for the reader’s convenience to print this Appendix at the close of each part; and I am minded at present to retain them so in the completed volume, for they will, I hope, be of no less interest than the text itself, if the reader takes more than cursory interest in that. But being, either

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