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[drawing]                                                             Doges Palace.  Bettio’s account setting aside his assumptions
                                                                      		that it is Calendario’s work, is all right as far
				Central niche                                                     		as page 10. but then comes his curious blunder in his
				should have                                                       		desire to correct Cicognara.  The former is indeed
				steps but not                                                     		wrong in saying dopo le prima sei secate;  right in marking
		 		[?] [?] [?] [?]                                                  		the beginning of the sala del Scrutinio and Bettio
                                                                      		has missed the real place of junction in his desire to
                                                                      		correct Cicognara - himself concluding that the larger
                                                                      		column is the mark of it.
                                                                      	A	But, if as I once fancied, there was an arcade all round
                                                                      		Calendario’s work, this larger column ought indeed to have
                                                                      		been at the angle  This is a great puzzle.
                                                                      Torresella.  This word explained by Bettio p 23
                                                                      		Note by the bye, Sansovino attribution of the red and white
                                                                      		facade to the Foscari p 3o9 and consider the top of the
                                                                      		campanile worked in same way.
                                                                      	B.	Then - see what Bettio quotes at p 27 of Sansovino which
                                                                      		must be spurious, for I don’t think that bas relief of
                                                                      		Venice is Calendario’s work at all
                                                                      Next  Bettio supposes that from the two great arches, there
                                                                      		was a grand staircase down, and at p 27, 28 he gets very
                                                                      		interesting, quoting mention in Sivos Chronicle of the
                                                                      		old palace which was knocked down in 1423, or 4.  Now there

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