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[M.119L] [M.119] Names. Ducal Palace. Landward view from Venice. 119
Names in the plan of Doge's palace
andio - for andito
zoja
genola - small church where criminals went before execution
Marangon - place where -fa legume
Caneva - place where wine was cooled.
Sunday 30th December. I was today rambling - or rather
running - among the quiet and melancholy canals which
extend between the Madonna dell‘ Orto and Sta Fosca:
- the winter sun glowing on the deep red brick, and the
canal beneath turned into a chasm of light - divided
into sharp squares of blue and vermilion - as if the houses
were standing on a scarlet carpet - they are lonely
and stagnant canals - bordered for the most part by the
dead walls of gardens - now waste ground - or by patches
of dark - mouldy - with decayed black gondolas lying
keel upmost - sinking into this putrid & black ground
gradually - or by remnant of palace wall - never finished
of which the doors and the angle shafts along remain. Farther
on one comes to detached groups of low & filthy houses - with
mud paths trodden hard between them - but through their
dark alleys I saw the horizontal brightness of the lagoon sunshine
and over the hard frozen snow made my way down to the shore.
The sky was all serene white blue: the lagoon as calm as a mirror
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]