New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-27

| venice, the ROYAL DOusenOlu the NcneIas Ol INC
army and the naval heroes the ambassadors. and the
distinguished representatives Of sister cities 1t took
half an hour TO arrange them, the whole landscape
ringing rras meantime, and when they started TO the
| blowing of trumpets gun doomed from the IRON
| bridge. 1t was answered by score of responsive
eannons in every part of Venice. Then the great
brass band played the Marcia Reak or Royal March,
and the cortege kept down the Grand Canal.
| PANORAMA OF THB GRAND CANAL.
Now the long line of palaces on either side begins
! to drift past. The railway station is almost at the
western end of the Grand Canal, and between IT and
| Saint Mark there are $50 palaces arranged on the
waters edge their great carved portals hardly above
the line Of the tide; and at no place is the width oil
the Canal greater than 200 feet its length between
the points specified being "a miles. For this distance
every palace showed flowers and cOlors, notices and
characterizations Venice has been called the most
Gothic city which exists end the original variety OF
the Gothic is to be studied here in every civil and
domestic development. The only building in New
| York to remind you OF these palaces is the new
| Academy of Design on FOurth-ave. From this
you can CLEAN some notion of the tesseated marbles
that make the fronts Of these palaces the tall, slim
windows that open in them, the window in the cen
ter through every story, being six ten Of these tall
windows nterlaced and under each Of these central
| windows balcony in architecture to match, looks
down upon tho Canal. Every palace is rooted with
red tilesj many are pnnacled and checkered with
statues to be bodily upheld by great sea-
green earyatides whose knees in the sea; before
all of them huge painted BARRIERS poles are driven,
whereto to secure gondolas as well as TO break the
force Of their conclusion against the palaces. Here
and there along the Grand Canal strip Of sidewalk
| reaches O rod two; but most Of the houses rise
boldly from the brine, and on the Grand Canal there
are many buildings that are very far from ranking as
| palaces.
Here therefore, beside the King, is the noble Lom-
bard pile Of the Palace Calerg, filled with splendid
canvases, and inhabited by that Duchess De Berri
whose husband was slain at the opera in Paris, and
who herself to secure the throne for his son, invaded
La Vendee. She was Oyertaken on the way, being
detained beyond her expectations, by the birth Of an
egtimate child, and straghtway her horoism turned
to scandal. Some dOmestcs throw out flag from its
balconies
| Close by is tho palace Fondaco de Turch, where
Venice used TO give hospitality TO Turkish merchants,
and strangely, there are turbans bowling from its
windows. II is good omen for the trade of Venice,
and all the people cheer.
From the golden ratings Of the Ca dOro or Golden
House the scores of elegant sculptures with carved
caSques nterposed, and blended styles of rustic,
diamond composite and Ionic have grown TO beauti-
full women, who scatter flowers on the royal barge;
and yonder where dwelt Catherine ComarO, the
widowed queen Of Cyprus; She stands in counter.
felt, sad among her maids, with the ueolor al her
girdle Hard by on the superb transition arcmtec-
lures of the Palace Morosin, checkered with in
signals Of the Arabic Byzantine, there stands an
elderly noblewOman in antique garb whlte'haTed,
her faded tresses very plentiful and bound with tn
color cOckades. She throws kiss from the lips which
duke has kissed down TO the royal gondoa, and be
rises TO return IL.
Now he comes in sight of the strong strange bridge
Of Ralto built of IstrRn stone. 80 years after the dis
covery Of America II is grand triumphal arch TO.
day, its stones Of silver gray, grown crimson and
emerald with the shadows Of flags The angels IN It's
spandrs carry the jubilant motto Of life to the King
and Italy Its great central arch is like gu urn Of
Aowers its shops are hung with eyergreensj virgins
in white along its parapet, strewng orange blossoms
down, represent all the cities Of the Peninsula, with
Venice over the keystone, crowned with tr-colors
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pleading the King is Rome AT the sight Of this there
is toss OF hands and banners; the music makes tho
loud GAribaldi hymn; every soldier stands upright
uncovered with his hand at his swOTd.hllt, and the
people at windows, the broad quAys, at the San
sovinian baustrades, cry like the scream Of eagles
&C. ua Roma :" Out Of the quarter OF the ancient
merchants, from the porticoes Of Saint Jacob where
ShylOck was buieted for taking usury press strange
old men, wild-hared with poverty the glossy eurs OF
Jessicas children in scarlet scars and green CATERS;
they all see the shackled efigy Of Rome, and reach
their pale trembling palms into the noon saying
Long live the King Of Italy and Rome" The
great banner the apex of the Riao languishesi
the King bows and shoots tho solitary arch
The group Of omnibus gondolas forever standing at
the piers Of the bridge all in glorious regalia to-
day. Their gondoers shout like gunners IN naval
battle Then the Palace Of Manin the lost Doge OF
the Republic, he who tainted when Bonaparte sur
rendered Venice TO the Austrians, comes close by
hidden save its splendid balconies, with flowers and
notices. Out Of the Palace Loredan, where Elena
Piscopia made sublmest philosophy the love ofwoman
pure white figure filings single white rose and the
King pins it to his button. Now over the Palace
Coccina floats the Prussian eagle 10 which the King
and soldiers bow and at the Palace Benzoni, where
Madame Benzoni gave recherche intellectual feasts,
there comes breeze that shows beneath the beautiful
colors company cheerful and beautiful.
Next door is the home OF TagOnl, the
renowned danssust, and il is quite gwen up
TO elderly ladies' who look their souvenirs OF youth
upon the passing pageant, waving handkerchiels the
y = al pa1a Harha ria all Tar
razza where the venerable Titan lived and his
bearded portrait looks satisfaction down from Its
superb facade; he lived nearly 100 years, requiring
the plague to take him of at last but how would
he have thrilled TO see this glad regeneration Of the
city made a school by his genius See, now, the
Palace Pisan named for that famous Admiral who
came from his dungeon TO lead his uDgraeful towns
men 10 victory where long the noblest works OF Paul
Veronese made perpetual revelry Of It's deserted
hall. The lion Of 81. Mark, with jaws wide
open, growls up the Grand Canal, from its
splendid portal. Cheers and ribbons fall from the
Palace MOcenigo, where Byron lived with his terma.
CANT mistress, Margarita Cogn, bakers wife, and
wrote the early part Of Don Juan to her inspiration,
with Marine Ialiero and the Tro TOseari. Here,
hard By, Is the Foseari palace, also, where many
monarchs have resided, placed TO command two arms
of the Grand Canal long the home OF the Stuars OF
Venice its heirs broken and banlshed, its paintings
sold and dispersed tortures inflicted upon its patrons,
and those who remain, poor as winter. Yet they,
with their towns people, greet the King, hopeful oil
comfort and justice to ensue.
So the royal procession gdes down the green cur
rent. passing the Palace Of the Duchess Of Parma,
Napoleon Bonaparte's widow who married her cham
beTain for the purposes related Of Hamlets mother,
and made her memory (not by her choice but by her
heartessness) less than Tanton = past the American
flag waving from the window Of the American Consul
in the Palace Giustinianiat which King and officers
rise to bow, for our Republic by its glorious example,
is a wonder to kings aud hope to peoples and no.
where more beloved than here 10 the Republic OF the
Adratic Shooting the Ponte NuovO, built by an