The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-12-15

lies the dreamy, sea-clad Venice; whlle
almost upon the uttermost western
limit of that beautiful peninsula; and
although the historic web of both cities
is of admirable texture and shot with
many fair thread of romance, Venice
conceals, beneath woof of dazzling
beauty, a warp dyed with the sombre
hues of deceit and intrigue. Genoa,
however, though her robe is spotted
with strife and cruelty, yet can point to
sturdy patriotism.
So different, physically as well as
politically, are the two cities that a
comparison of their main features leads
only to series of anSitheses. Venice
is as level as chess board; Genoa might
almost be termed perpendicular, SO
steepIy is she builded; and while Venice
appears like some fantastic old, box
bordered garden with canals for paths,
Genoa may not inaptly be hkened to a
trellised frame work set up against a
rocky hillside.
Long before the traveller reaches the
Ligurian capital, if overland bound
from the west, he comes upon the out
lying suburbs, whence in. the distance
the city itself strikes his eye, with it's
groups of tall white palaces and domed
aud lowered chucrohes, looking SO tair
as to make hlm loath to cease contem-
plating them. Far and high they ss-
cend, tier upon tier, along the monnt.
ainous slope, fronted by the mole, whose
crowds Of ships are as it were, guarded
by twin lighthouses, which at night
flashes their beams cheerily over the
purple waves of the Mediterranean. Ii
he arrives from the north he beholds it
from the heights from which be stands
sweeping down like the frozen foam Of
q many-branched cascade that is eager
to Join the sea-down to the curved
shore where the sunlit pillows roll in
with messages from the distant Africa.
Come to this bower, which like a
verdurous frame sets off the picture oil
the city and the sea.
Here at ourfee begin the habitatons,
intermingled with grove and wall, and
diversified by cupola and turret, bal.
cony and arcliway; they descend on
either hand so the shore of the harbor,
shielded on the east, north and wesi
south open to the influences of the sea
that comes with its myriad blue waves
straight from the far.away, pale cloud
that becomes, Mt hundred miles dis.
tance, the rocky ramparts of Genoa't
former vassal, Corsica.
Alexander Dumas here says that there
are only three streets, properly so named
in the city-the Strada Baldi, Strads
Nuouissima and Strada Nuova-all the
other ways of communication bainf
mere alleys, but that these three com
pensate amply for the want OF greater
number. Madame de Stael declared
them worthy to receive congress o
kings and the poet Alierl called them I
store-house OF palaces,
Yet with the regal aboaes there to be
found the hand OF time has dealt harsh
ly, shrouding them with an air o
sad diIapidation, opening chInks il
in their walls and stripping off thei
ornamental facings; while the rubbisl
thus accumulated serves admirably t,
obstruct the narrow, declivitous lans
which climb the mountain. TITS
mournful collection of mortar and mar
BILE, wretchedness and opulence, ant
one is not much tempted to envy ancien
doges and noblemen their possession o
such homes. tt
The finest palaces are in the Strad
Nuova. The one called Palazzo Tursiis
outwardly, almost the richest in ap
pearance, but the inside of it does no
make good its exterior promise. Jus
the contrary is the case respecting tn
Palazzo Rosso, which, though some
what commanding, shows little exerio
elegance, while within 1t contains on
of the choicest picture galleries to b
met with in all Genoa, embracing ez
amples of Titan, Paolo Veronese
Palma Vecchio, Carlo Dolci, Bordone
Albrecht Durer, Caracci, Guereino
Guido, and especially of Rubens' pupi
Vandyct.
But the ancient ducal residence, th
Palazzo Doris, bears away the pail
and outshines all its neighbors, man
of which are so restricted for space 8
to be gardenless, with the exception {
their terraces and balcony trellises; fc
it not only has a beautiful land plea
anccs, ascending the mountain in il
rear, and connecting with it by ga
lery, but also charming pasture, an
q noble marble terrace that beholds il
; whiteness reflected in the harbor wave
! and whereon the famour admiral, Andre
Dorio, gave an ambassador1al ente
tainment, at which the silver dim,
! service, thrice changed, after evel
! course, was flung into the Pea. to b.
however, ESQ rumor s1yly states) hshe
up again when the feast was DER, q
Q though actual truth of the fact
wanting.
, In the grounds OF this palace, cloi
by statue of Jupiter, stands the mon
/, /, ment of dog named Rsdan, which WI
presented to DORA by the Emper,
! Charles ", and which, dying in IL
! absence of its master, was buried
} the foot of the statue, so that, accor
, ing to the epltaph, even In death
i might not cease to guard a god. Whe
4 Doria returned be considered the il
' scrption to be very plain one. and |
: allowed it to remain unaltered. u
q himself lies buried In the church
y Matteo.
: The site of his enemy, the conDpiratt
i Fieschi's palace, which was razed
n the ground after the death of the III
q fortunate noble, is near the church
4 Santa Maria in Via Lata, and is marke
e by nameless inscription indicating IL
y date, July IS, 1774, when it becan
e State property. In most cities a spa'
o such as this palace formerly occuple
: would convey but paltry notion of IL
II wealth and power or its owner; but aft,
il the manner of Gotham's Fifth avenu
height in Genoa means everything, al
breadth nothing; its magnIfcence
altogether that Of aspiration, and not
If all Of expansion.
San Lorenzo is the principal churC
n edifce, hanc some eleventh centuI
q building of black and white marble,
II are many of the Italian churches, b
having an advantage possessed by fe
# of them, in that it is really complete
o which is not generally the case in I'll
'e land of melody. Here is to be seen Il
a celebrated false emerald dlsh, called Il
, Sacno CattinO which tradition aaaart