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                                                                      Next for General Dates.  All from Venice and lagoons
                                                                      Calling St Marks (1)
                                                                      (2) Churches.  St Simeon profeta.  Referred to the year 967 for
                                                                      	967	founding by Ghisi family.  (Venice and lagoons)
                                                                      		Sculptor of St Ermolaus in front, said to be of 3rd Century.
                                                                      		Account of translation of his bones, Cornaro
                                                                      		 (Not. Stor. p 384)  This translation (and I supposed
                                                                      		the church)  in 1205.
                                                                      (3) St Jacopo dell dall’ Orio.  Orio corrupted for Luprio.
                                                                      	1235.	The restoration of this church in 1225, by the Badoara
Islands of Venice.  Remember its division before into                 		family is evidently the one to which it owes so much of
Sestieri, into Islands.  1. Rialto:  they say in (Venice              		its old form as was left in Sansovino’s times, by the
and its lagoons) it lay on both sides of the bridge.                  		final restorations.
(2. Scopulo or Dorso duro.  3 Luprio, not easily now dis-             (4) 1246. San Giov. et Paolo.  The Dominican, Malvenda, in the
tinguished  4, 5 a pair called ‘gemini’, ‘gemelle’ or                 		stories of his order, gives a pretty story of its foundation.
 Zemelle.  6 Olivolo.                                                 		It is a dominican church.
                                                                      		St Dominic came to Venice to meet the {Popes} legate,
                                                                      		Cardinal Ugolino and after his death, there was a number of
                                                                      		Dominicans in Venice who had the church of San Martino
                                                                      		The Doge Jacopo Tiepolo grants them land, allagato ancora
                                                                      		dalle acque in the parish of S.M.Formosa, in 1234,
                                                                      		In 1246 the work began.  the church was completed about
                                                                      		the close of the century, architect unknown Cicognara from
                                                                      		the likeness to the Frari it is also Nicolo

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