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                                                                      				FRARI.
                                                                      
                                                                      		Pisano’s, I believe it neither one nor the other, are
                                                                      		his.   Note.  the Dominican churches for comparison St
                                                                      		Agostino in Padua and Anastasia Verona.
                                                                      (5)  Frari.  The Franciscans came to Venice after death of St
                                                                      	4 1250	Francis in 1227 to establish their rule there.
                                                                      		After much preparation, the first stone was laid in 1250
                                                                      		Called Ca’ Grande, as the largest of these dedicated to
                                                                      		the Virgine  de Frari, or Frati Minori.  In 1280
                                                                      		Nicolas 4th granted indulgences to whoever would
q.  date of Savelli                                                   		help it.
                                                                      		Paolo Savelli.  The condottier, spent much money on
                                                                      		the vaulting (volte)  He sleeps there.  The doge Gradenigo
                                                                      		left money for it.  Another Gradenigo erected 4 columns
                                                                      		with their pilasters:  The Doge Francesco Dandolo, who
                                                                      		reigned from 1328 to 1338 finished it with his own
                                                                      		money;  it was not however it appears finished till after
                                                                      		his death, nor consecrated till 1492.
                                                                      		The Tower was begun by the patrician Tommaso Viero
                                                                      		and finished by the merchants of Monza and Milan who
                                                                      		sojourned (stragiavano) a Venezia;  in 1396.
                                                                      		The bas relief over lateral door they ascribe to Parrebbe
                                                                      		of the school of the Leopardo.

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