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[M.145L]                                                              [M.145]	House near Teatro Malibran.  Ca Giustiniani.	145
To the palaces described opposite now add                             
one called Cavalli, next to the Post Office -                         		windows daguerreotyped  Of these, the tracery real size is at p
daged long ago:  and now detailed on No                               		58 Housebook 2:  joining a to d and b c being the base
155  It has one superb finistrato on the                              		of the cusp.  I put the book against the stone, and marked
first floor and another window at the side                            		off the depths but I must have been a little deceived in that
of the det Foscari Pattern:  It is on the whole                       		of the line a a2 for the smaller roll was not quite so
the finest example of the 4foiled pure                                		large as that would necessitate  The inner lines are certainly
palace in Venice, and remarkable for the                              		nearer the truth.
excessive narrowness of its cusp:  (in depth)                         		Then on the next page 59 l are given the outline of cusp
for the return of the cavetto in its                                  		accurately:  showing stone left at its extremities; & herein
tracery, common to this and the Ca Foscari                            		note another thing - whether - when there is the recess to
and for the magnificent breadth of its                                		the cusp, and moulding d e in figure here last page,
flower band on the shafts.                                            		there be not also the fillet left x y, (p 59 l)
The Ca Foscari traceries are given at                                 		while when a h is used, no fillet is left.
p 43, 44 French book.  They are                                       		The capitals in this house are pure florid Bon: only the
I think of same time as these, and                                    		lower leaves are set, as well as the upper, with incision
later than Doges palace:  Vide note & at                              		outwards at bottom and [?] rib at top.  The bases are restored
p 44 Fr Book.  They are Foscari                                       		The next house of importance in this series is the Ca Giustiniani
capitals are more undercut than these,                                		described at p 56 Gothic book.  which gives the intermediate
and I have not the least doubt are                                    		form of moulding.
1440 - 1460.                                                          House opposite	The next is a large house lately restored, especially the [?] lower
                                                                      Ca d'Oro	story, just opposite the Ca d’Oro.
                                                                      		It has two stories above the water story:  the lower, or first floor
                                                                      		6 at 6th, 4 det; 6th with same section and capitals as upper
                                                                      		story.

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