218 ST. MARK’S REST

Of these things, then, the two pillars before you are “famous” in memorial. What in themselves they possess, deserving honour, we will next try to discern. But you must row a little nearer to the pillars, so as to see them clearly.

cited by the editor of the Italian translation (p. 16 n.), and should be read in modification of the strictures in the text. The destruction of the tomb was the work of the abbot; the civic authorities protested and required its restoration, when the abbot called in Longhena.]

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