Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London, J. and A. Arch · leaf 298
rprinces, but perhaps the ideas of wealth and power which no longer exist,are not less interesting than those of present prosperity. They are in-deed of a very different sort, but they harmonize better with the fallenstate of Venice; fallen probably to rise no more; for the Austrian govern- 264… … SKETCH OF A HOUSE AT VERONA. 265 LETTER XIX. VENICE. Venice, 28th Nov. 1816. I HAD heard so much of the canals and gondolas of Venice, that I was ra-ther surprised to find that I could go by land to any part of the city, ex-cept the Giudecca. It is indeed sometimes round about, and the alleys,for…
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