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Campanile:  note Sudovine p 295 says nothing of its pyramid           				DUCAL PALACE
coloured alternately red and white, on its edges like Ca’             
de Oro.  However on the whole top is after 1417 and the               Ducal palace.
Angel.  1517 I need not trouble myself about it.                      		Angelo Participazio had his palace there 809 or 810
                                                                      		This was destroyed by revolution against Pietro Candiano
                                                                      	C	the doge.  Note the praise given by Henry 5th to this and
                                                                      		other buildings in Venice reported by Andrew Dandolo in
Also Sansovino p 324 Saloon above the Rio del Palazzo begun           		his Chronicle i.e. in 1116 or thereabouts - this highly
in 1301                                                               		important.
                                                                      
		All the decrees in p 183 184 of Pareri                              		Now:  "from Sansovino, we have the commencement of
                                                                      		the Sala del gran Consiglia in "dosso l’anno 1390
                                                                      		p 325 Sansovino
                                                                      		In 1365 Guariento painted there the paradise -
 The great fire was in 1577                                           		Sansovino 325, 2 under Doge Marco Cornaro, Vid below
                                                                      		p 72 1.
                                                                      	X	But Sansovino is wrong for there is a decree of the
                                                                      		28th December 1340 for the erection of the Sala del
The librarian of the Musec Correr says he has always seen             		Consiglio maggiore, and others to the same purpose in
                                                          B           		1342 and 1349 from the last of which it appears that the
1394 as the date of beginning of ducal palace.                        		works were suspended owing to the plague.
                                                                      
                                                                      		Now Calendario was on foreign service, under
                                                                      		command of the signoria;  bearing date 1350
                                                                      	A.	Faliero became doge, 11th September, 1354.  The true
                                                                      		architect of the palace appears then so says (Venice and
                                                                      		its lagoons) to be Pietro Baseggio  Basegio however died
                                                                      		before 1354, vide notes, p 2 A.

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