Canto 26, 6

In their galleys

With ships, boats and with merchandise.

2 % on what's actually sold. No tax above that.

The year 6962 of the world

18th. April, in Constantinople.

Wind on the lagoon, the south wind breaking roses.

mo. mo. (excellentissimo) princeps et d

Lord, my lord in particular, Sforza:
st. tr. shp.

In reply to 1 l of yr. ld

re/ mat of horses, there are some for sale here.

I said that I didn't. then seen 'em all thoroughly.

Now I may say that I have, and think

There are eleven good horses and almost that number

Of hacks that might be used in necessity,

To be had at a reasonable price.

It is true that there are X or XI big horses
from 80 to 110 ducats

That seem to me dearer at the price

Than those for 80 ducats and under
sp.

And I think that if yr. ld wd. send from

1000 ducats to one thousand 500 it cd. be spent
dp.

On stuff that wd. suit yr. I quite well.

Please Y.L. to answer quickly

As I want to take myself out of here,

And if you want me to buy them

Send the cash by Mr. Pitro the farrier

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XXVI

To the supreme pig, the archbishop of Salzburg :
Lasting filth and perdition.
Since your exalted pustulence is too stingy
To give me a decent income
And has already assured me that here I have nothing to hope
And had better seek fortune elsewhere;
And since thereafter you have
Three times impeded my father and self intending departure
I ask you for the fourth time
To behave with more decency, and this time
Permit my departure.

Wolfgang Amadeus, august 1777

(inter lineas)

" As is the sonata, so is little Miss Cannabich. "

CANTO XXVI.

And I came here in my young youth
and lay there under the crocodile
By the column, looking East on the Friday,
And I said: Tomorrow I will lie on the South side
And the day after, south west.
And at night they sang in the gondolas
And in the barche with lanthorns;
The prows rose silver on silver
taking light in the darkness. " Relaxetur ! "

11th. December 1461 : that Pasti be let out
with a caveat
" caveat ire ad Turchum, that he stay out of
Constantinople
" if he hold dear our government's pleasure.
" The book will be retained by the council
( Valturio's " Re Militari ").

To Nicolo Segundino, the next year, 12th. October
" Leave no .. omnem .. as they say .. volve lapidem..
" Stone unturned that he, Pio,
" Give peace to the Malatesta.
" Faithful sons ( we are ) of the church
two
( for 1664 pages )....

" And see all the cardinals and the nephew ..
" And in any case get the job done.

" Our galleys were strictly neutral
" And sent there for neutrality.

Canto 26, 5.

And " You may seal your acts with lead, Signor Ziani."

The jewelers company had their furs lined with scarlet
And silk cloth for the horses,

A silk colth called cendato
That they still use for the shawls ;
And at the time of that war against Hungary
Uncle Carlo Malatesta, three wounds.

" That are in San Samuele ( young ladies )
are all to go to Rialto
And to wear yellow kerchief, as are also
Their matrons ( ruffiane ). "

" Ambassador, for his great wisdom and money,
" That had been here as an exile, Cosimo
" Pater. "

"Lord Luigi Gonzaga, to be given Casa Giustinian".

" The bishops of Lampascus and Cyprus

" And other fifty lords bishops
that are the church of the orient."

March 8. " That Sigismundo left Mantua
I'll contented ...

And they are dead and have left a few pictures.

" The Albizi have sacked the Medici bank."

And : " The Venetians may stand, come, depart
With their families free by land, free by sea

Canto 26. 9

that painter to the Seignory, commissioned to paint the
gt. hall where Yr. Zamberti Lordship deigns to mount
on the scaffold to see our work, the history of Ancona,
and my name is Victor Carpatio.

As to the Jerusalem I dare say there is not another
in our time as good and completely perfect, or as lar
large. It is 25 ft. long by 5 1/2, and I know Zuane
Zamberti has often spoken of it to yr. Sublimity ; I
know certainly that this painter of yours has carried
off a piece, not the whole of it. I can send you
a small sketch in aquarelle on a roll, or have it
seen by good judges and leave the price to your
Lordship.

XV. Aug 1911, Venetijs.

I have sent a copy of
this letter by another way to be sure you get one or
the other.

The humble svt. of yr. Sublimity

Victor Carpathio

pictore.