I. THE BURDEN OF TYRE 217

leading into what was yet a monastery before the last Italian revolution, but is now a finally deserted loneliness.¹

Over his grave there is a heap of frightful modern upholsterer’s work,-Longhena’s;² his first tomb (of which you may see some probable likeness in those at the side of St. John and St. Paul³) being removed as too modest and time-worn for the vulgar Venetian of the seventeenth century; and this, that you see, put up to please the Lord Mayor and the beadles.

The old inscription was copied on the rotten black slate which is breaking away in thin flakes, dimmed by dusty salt. The beginning of it yet remains:-“Here lies the Terror of the Greeks.” Read also the last lines:-

“WHOSOEVER THOU ART, WHO COMEST TO BEHOLD THIS TOMB OF HIS, BOW THYSELF DOWN BEFORE GOD, BECAUSE OF HIM.”⁴

¹ [The greater part of the ancient monastery is now a barrack.]

² [Baldassare Longhena, Venetian architect of the middle of the seventeenth century: compare Vol. XI. p. 111.]

³ [See Vol. XI. p. 85, and Vol. XX. pp. 251-252, and Plate VII.]

⁴ [The inscription is thus recorded by E. A. Cicogna (Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, 1824-1853, vol. iv. p. 515):-

“TERROR GRÆCORUM IACET HIC ET LAUS VENETORVM

DOMINICVS MICHAEL QVEM TIMET HEMANUEL

DVX PROBVS ET FORTIS QVEM TOTVS ADHVC COLIT ORBIS

PRVDENS CONSILIO SVMMVS ET INGENIO

ISTIVS ACTA VIRI DECLARAT CAPTIO TVRI

INTERITVS SYRLÆ MŒROR ET VNGARLÆ

QVI FECIT VENETOS IN PACE MANERE QVIETOS

DONEC ENIM VIGVIT PATRIA TVTA FVIT

QVISQVIS AD HOC PULCHRUM VENIES SPECTARE SEPVLCHRVM

CERNVVS ANTE DEVM FLECTERE PROPER EVM

ANNO MCXXVIII IND. VII. OBIIT

DOMINICVS MICHAEL DVX VEN.

HOCCE INCLYTI DUCIS SEPULCRU VETUSTATE DESTRUCTU

PIISSIMO SENATUS DECRETO

MONACHI VETERI PRORSUS SERVATO EPIGRAMMATE

ITERUM EXTRUXERE

MDCXXXVII.”

Contemporary documents referring to the destruction of the original tomb are

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