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                                                                      No 139.
	Measures of No 139.                                                  
    C c    (c under soffit) 5 " 5                                     St Marks.  Door into the treasury, Measures opposite;  those of the
    e d (-)		3 " 0                                                    		breadth of the moulding somewhat difficult to take,
    d f			2 " 1                                                       		owing to its depth:  a diagonal from a to h or a2 h2 in
    c q			1 "11                                                       		section fig 2 is about 1 " 2  the dentil is about an inch
    c e			3 " 1                                                       		deep  g h about 9¼ a g including dentil about  5½
    h i (circa)		4 " 5½                                               		to 5¾ giving an inch or ¾ of loss on the radius.
    c 2 d (-)		3 " 7½                                                 Doges palace.	Among my various dates I have not yet noticed the
    c 2 on a h vertical	2 " 4½                                        		very important one 1479 of the earlier great fire.  The
    c 2 a (-)		2 " 5 with a depth to arc of circa. 3½ in.             		fire which did most damage was 1577;  vid p 11 1 here, just
                                                                      		100 years later (a previous one having taken place
	This 1574 fire is given to 1575 in the following passage             		in 1574, sotto Luigi Mocenigo Sansovino p 318 (2) after
	from  Historia della Citt. e republica di Venezia di                 		which the roof was coppered Sansovino p 319 (2) (1)
	Paolo Morosini (x) senatore Venetiano 4o Venice 1636 p 293           		But this 1479 fire was under Giov. Mocenigo Sansovino
A.	"In ista di questo principe, fu raffigurato nella Sala del         		p 318 1  Now the renaissance work with statues opposite
	maggior Conseglio sopra il Tribuna ò Sede Ducale con quelle          		the giants staircase was 1462 Sotto il principe Moro
	piu nobile pittura che la conditione de’ tempi permetteva,           		Sansovino p 320 1  therefore my arcade the upper inside
	il Paradiso, e sopra il muro con lettere d’oro fu scritto            		must be earlier and has nothing to do with this fire, Note
	esser da Marco Cornaro Doge e Cavallier stata l’opera                		Selvatico’s intense absurdity in ascribing the capitals to
	commandata: che del 1575 da miserabile incendio distrutta            		1463 p 13 above.
	e abbruggiata dec nobilissimo pennello a nostri tempi di             		Yet there may be some use in account of the first fire
	Giacomo Tentorretto fu  risarcita e rinovata".                       		communicated to me by Mr Brown from Sanuto M S vol 2nd Vite de
	The following passage also at p 293 bears importantly on             		Dogi Dono Contarini p 119"  A.D. 1479  A di 4 Settembre
	date of great council room.  In the conclusion of life
	of Giacomo.

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