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Venice and its story (1910)

Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London, J. M. Dent ; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 234

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twohours before sunset.Two days after, on AllSaints Day, the newDoge, and his Councilwere at mass at St Marks when a messenger came in hot hastewith the news that Francesco Foscari was dead. The Council-lors gazed mutely at each other. The Ten were convoked and,pricked perhaps by remorse at their… … N.ERSrHp^ BUST OF FRANCESCO FOSCARI THE COST OF EMPIRE 151 gold; crowned with the ducal cap; sword by side andspurred with gold, all that remained of the great DogeFoscari lay in state in the hall of the Senate, guarded byfour and twenty nobles in scarlet robes to indicate that if theDoge were dead…

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