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Thus much, however, it is necessary for the reader to know; that, when I planned the work, I had materials by me, col' lected at different times of sojourn in Venice during the last seventeen years, which it seemed to me might be arranged with. Little diflculty, and which I believe tabs of value as illustrating the history of Southern Gothic Requiring, how: evci, some clearer assurance respecting certain points. Of chronology, I went to Venice finally 1n the autumn of 1849, not doubting but that the dates of the principal edifices of the ancient' city were either ascertained, or ascertainable with out extraordinary research. To my consternation, I found that the Venetian antiquaries were not agreed within a cen tury as to the date of the building of the facades of the Ducal Palace, and that nothing was known of any other civil edifice of the early city, except that at some time or other it had been fitted up for somebody 8 reception, and been thereupon fresh painted. Every date in question was determinable only by internal evidence, and it became necessary for me to examine not only every one of the older palaces, stone by stone, but.
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Thus much, however, it is necessary for the reader to know; that, when I planned the work, I had materials by me, col' lected at different times of sojourn in Venice during the last seventeen years, which it seemed to me might be arranged with. Little diflculty, and which I believe tabs of value as illustrating the history of Southern Gothic Requiring, how: evci, some clearer assurance respecting certain points. Of chronology, I went to Venice finally 1n the autumn of 1849, not doubting but that the dates of the principal edifices of the ancient' city were either ascertained, or ascertainable with out extraordinary research. To my consternation, I found that the Venetian antiquaries were not agreed within a cen tury as to the date of the building of the facades of the Ducal Palace, and that nothing was known of any other civil edifice of the early city, except that at some time or other it had been fitted up for somebody 8 reception, and been thereupon fresh painted. Every date in question was determinable only by internal evidence, and it became necessary for me to examine not only every one of the older palaces, stone by stone, but.
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