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But these are closed; the Ten, the Avogadori,
The Giunta, and the chief men of the Forty,
Alone will be beholders of thy doom,
And they are ready to attend the Doge.

Doge. The Doge!

And in thy best maturity of mind

A madness of the heart shall seize upon thee;
Passion shall tear thee when all passions cease
In other men, or mellow into virtues;
And majesty, which decks all other heads,

Ben. Yes, Doge, thou hast lived and thou shalt die Shall crown to leave thee headless; honors shall A sovereign; till the moment which precedes The seperation of that head and trunk, That ducal crown and head shall be united.

Thou hast forgot thy dignity in deigning

To plot with petty traitors; not so we,
Who in the very punishment acknowledge

The prince. Thy vile accomplices have died

But prove to thee the heralds of destruction,
And hoary hairs of shame, and both of death,
But not such death as fits an aged man.”
Thus saying he pass'd on.-That hour is come.
Ang. And with this warning couldst thou not have
striven

To avert the fatal moment, and atone

The dog's death, and the wolf's; but thou shalt fall By penitence for that which thou hadst done? As falls the lion by the hunters, girt

By those who feel a proud compassion for thee,
And mourn even the inevitable death

Provoked by thy wild wrath, and regal fierceness.
Now we remit thee to thy preparation :
Let it be brief, and we ourselves will be
Thy guides unto the place where first we were
United to thee as thy subjects, and

Thy senate; and must now be parted from thee
As such for ever, on the self-same spot.-
Guards! form the Doge's escort to his chamber.

SCENE II.

The Doge's Apartment.

[Exeunt.

Doge. I own the words went to my heart, so much
That I remember'd them amid the maze
Of life, as if they form'd a spectral voice,
Which shook me in a supernatural dream;
And I repented; but 'twas not for me
To pull in resolution: what must be

I could not change, and would nor fear.-Nay more,
Thou canst not have forgot, what all remember,
That on my day of landing here as Doge,
On my return from Rome, a mist of such
Unwonted density went on before
The bucentaur like the columnal cloud
Which usher'd Israel out of Egypt, till
The pilot was misled, and disembark'd us
Between the pillars of Saint Mark's, where 'tıs
The custom of the state to put to death
Its criminals, instead of touching at

The Doce as Prisoner, and the DUCHESS attending The Riva bella Paglia, as the wont is,

him.

Doge. Now, that the priest is gone, 'twere useless

all

To linger out the miserable minutes;

So that all Venice shudder'd at the omen,
Ang. Ah! little boots it now to recollect
Such things.
Doge.

And yet I find a comfort in

But one pang more, the pang of parting from thee, The thought that these things are the work of Fate;

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Ang.

How foretold you?

Doge. Long years ago-so long, they are a doubt
In memory, and yet they live in annals:
When I was in my youth and serv'd the senate
And signory as podesta and captain

Of the town of Treviso, on a day
Of festival, the sluggish bishop who

Convey'd the Host aroused my rash young anger,
By strange delay, and arrogant reply

To my reproof! I raised my hand and smote him
Until he reel'd beneath his holy burden;
And as he rose from earth again, he raised

His tremulous hands in pious wrath towards heaven.

For I would rather yield to gods than men,
Or cling to any creed of destiny,

Rather than deem these mortals, most of whom

I know to be as worthless as the dust,
And weak as worthless, more than instruments
Of an o'erruling power; they in themselves
Were all incapable-they could not be
Victors of him who oft had conquer'd for them!
Ang. Employ the minutes left in aspirations
Of a more healing nature, and in peace
Even with these wretches take thy flight to Heaven.
Doge. I am at peace: the peace of certainty
That a sure hour will come, when their sons' sons,
And this proud city, and these azure waters,

| And all which makes them eminent and bright,
Shall be a desolation, and a curse,

A hissing and a scoff unto the nations,
A Carthage, and a Tyre, an Ocean Babel!

Ang. Speak not thus now; the surge of passion
still

Sweeps o'er thee to the last; thou dost deceive
Thyself, and canst not injure them-be calmer.

Doge. I stand within eternity, and see
Into eternity, and I behold-

Ay, palpable as I see thy sweet face
For the last time-the days which I denounce

Thence pointing to the Host, which had fallen from | Unto all time against these wave-girt walls,

him,

He turn'd to me, and said, "The hour will come
When he thou hast o'erthrown shall o'erthrow thee:
The glory shall depart from out thy house,
The wisdom shall be shaken from thy soul,

And they who are indwellers.

Guard, (coming forward.) Doge of Venice
The Ten are in attendance on your highness.
Doge. Then farewell, Angiolina!-one embrace-
Forgive the old man who hath been to thee

A fond but fatal husband-love my memory-
I would not ask so much for me still living,
But thou canst judge of me more kindly now,
Seeing my evil feelings are at rest.

Besides, of all the fruit of these long years,
Glory, and wealth, and power, and fame, and name,
Which generally leave some flowers to bloom
Even o'er the grave, I have nothing left, not even
A little love, or friendship, or esteem,
No not enough to extract an epitaph
From ostentatious kinsmen; in one hour

I have uprooted all my former life,
And outlived every thing, except thy heart,
The pure, the good, the gentle, which will oft
With unimpair'd but not a clamorous grief
Still keep-thou turn'st so pale!-Alas! she faints,
She hath no breath, no pulse !-Guards lend your
aid-

I cannot leave her thus, and yet 'tis better,
Since every lifeless moment spares a pang.
When she shakes off this temporary death,
I shall be with the Eternal.-Call her women-
One look!-how cold her hand!--as cold as mine
Shall be ere she recovers.-Gently tend her,
And take my last thanks--I am ready now.
[The Attendants of ANGIOLINA enter and
round their mistress, who has fainted.
Exeunt the DOGE, Guards, &c., &c.

SCENE III.

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But recollect the people are without,
Beyond the compass of the human voice.
Doge. I speak to Time and to Eternity,
Of which I grow a portion, not to man.
Ye elements in which to be resolved,
I hasten, let my voice be as a spirit
Upon you! Ye blue waves! which bore my banner
Ye winds! which flutter'd o'er as if you loved it,
And fill'd my swelling sails as they were wafted
To many a triumph! Thou, my native earth,
Which I have bled for, and thou foreign earth,
Which drank this willing blood from many a wound!
Ye stones, in which my gore will not sink, but
Reek up to Heaven! Ye skies, which will receive it!
Thou sun! which shinest on these things, and Thou!
Who kindlest and who quenchest suns !-Attest!
I am not innocent-but are these guiltless?

I perish, but not unavenged; far ages
Float up from the abyss of time to be,

And show these eyes, before they close, the doom Of this proud city, and I leave my curse On her and hers for ever!—Yes, the hours sur-Are silently engendering of the day, When she, who built 'gainst Attila a bulwark, Shall yield, and bloodlessly and basely yield Unto a bastard Attila, without Shedding so much blood in her last defence As these old veins, oft drain'd in shielding her, The Court of the Ducal Palace: the outer gates are Shall pour in sacrifice.-She shall be bought shut against the people.-The DOGE enters in his And sold, and be an appanage to those ducal robes, in procession with the Council of Ten Who shall despise her!-She shall stoop to be and other Patricians, attended by the Guards till A province for an empire, petty town they arrive at the top of the "Giant's Staircase," In lieu of capitol, with slaves for senates, (where the Doges took the oaths ;) the Exccutioner Beggars for nobles, panders for a people! 10 is stationed there with his sword.-On arriving, a Chief of the Ten takes off the ducal cap from the Doge's head.

Doge. So now the Doge is nothing, and at last
I am again Marino Faliero :

'Tis well to be so, though but for a moment.
Here was I crown'd, and here, bear witness, Heaven!
With how much more contentment I resign
That shining mockery, the ducal bauble,
Than I received the fatal ornament.

One of the Ten. Thou tremblest, Faliero!
Doge.

'Tis with age, then.9

Ben. Faliero! hast thou aught further to commend,

Compatible with justice, to the senate ?

Then when the Hebrew's in thy palaces,11
The Hun in thy high places, and the Greek
Walks o'er thy mart, and smiles on it for his !
When thy patricians beg their bitter bread
In narrow streets, and in their shameful need
Make their nobility a plea for pity!
Then, when the few who still retain a wreck
Of their great fathers heritage shall fawn
Round a barbarian Vice of Kings' Vicegerent,
Even in the palace where they sway'd as sovereigns,
Even in the palace where they slew their sovereign,
Proud of some name they have disgraced, or sprung
From an adultress boastful of her guilt
With some large gondolier or foreign soldier,
Shall bear about their bastardy in triumph
To the third spurious generation ;—when

Doge. I would commend my nephew to their Thy sons are in the lowest scale of being,

mercy,

My consort to their justice; for methinks

My death, and such a death, might settle all
Between the state and me.

Ben.
They shall be cared for;
Even notwithstanding thine unheard-of crime.
Doge. Unheard-of! ay, there's not a history
But shows a thousand crown'd conspirators
Against the people; but to set them free
One sovereign only died, and one is dying.
Ben. And who were they who fell in such a cause?
Doge. The King of Sparta, and the Doge of
Venice-

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Slaves turn'd o'er to the vanquish'd by the victors,
Despised by cowards for greater cowardice,
And scorn'd even by the vicious for such vices
As in the monstrous grasp of their conception
Defy all codes to image or to name them;
Then, when of Cyprus, now thy subject kingdom,
All thine inheritance shall be her shame
Entail'd on thy less virtuous daughters, grown
A wider proverb for worse prostitution ;-
When all the ills of conquer'd states shall cling thee,
Vice without splendor, sin without relief
Even from the gloss of love to smooth it o'er,
But in its stead coarse lusts of habitude,
Prurient yet passionless, cold studied lewdness,
Depraving nature's frailty to an art ;-

When these and more are heavy on thee, when
Smiles without mirth, and pastimes without pleasure,
Youth without honor, age without respect,
Meanness and weakness, and a sense of wo

He raises his keen eyes to heaven; I see
Them glitter, and his lips move-Hush! hush !—no ̧
'Twas but a murmur-Curse upon the distance!
His words are inarticulate, but the voice

'Gainst which thou wilt not strive, and dar'st not Swells up like mutter'd thunder; would we could

murmur,

Have made thee last and worst of peopled deserts,

Then, in the last gasp of thine agony,
Amidst thy many murders, think of mine!

But gather a sole sentence!

Second it. Hush! we perhaps may catch the sound.

First Cit.

Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes! 12 I cannot hear him.-How his hoary hair
Gehenna of the waters! thou sea Sodom !
Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods!
Thee and thy serpent seed!

[Here the DOGE turns, and addresses the Executioneer.
Slave, do thine office!
Strike as I would
Strike deep as my curse!

Strike as I struck the foe!
Have struck those tyrants!
Strike-and but once!

[The DOGE throws himself upon his knees, and
as the Executioner raises his sword, the scene
closes.

SCENE IV.

The Piazza and Piazzetta of Saint Mark's.-The People in crowds gathered round the grated gates of the Ducal Palace, which are shut.

First Citizen. I have gain'd the gate, and can
discern the Ten,

Robed in their gowns of state, ranged round the
Doge.

Second Cit. I cannot reach thee with mine utmost
effort.

How is it? let us hear at least, since sight

Is thus prohibited unto the people,
Except the occupiers of those bars.

First Cit. One has approach'd the Doge, and now
they strip

The ducal bonnet from his head-and now

"Tis vain,

Streams on the wind like foam upon the wave !
Now-now-he kneels-and now they form a circle
Round him, and all is hidden-but I see
The lifted sword in air-Ah! Hark! it falls!
[The people murmur
Third Cit. Then they have murder'd him who
would have freed us.

Fourth Cit. He was a kind man to the commons

ever.

Fifth Cit. Wisely they did to keep their portals
barr'd.

Would we had known the work they were preparing
Ere we were summon'd here, we would have brought
Weapons and forced them!

Sixth Cit.

Are you sure he's dead? First Cit. I saw the sword fall-Lo! what have we here?

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A gondola is not like a common boat, but is as easily rowed with one oar as with two, (though of "I Signori di Notte" held an important charge course not so swiftly,) and often is so from motives in the old Republic. of privacy; and (since the decay of Venice) of economy.

3.

They think themselves

Engaged in secret to the Signory.
Page 294, lines 7 and 8.

6.

Festal Thursday.

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Page 305, line 26. fat or greasy Thursday," which I cannot literally translate in the text, was the day.

7.

Guards! let their mouths be gagg'd, even in the act.
Page 336, line 37.

Historical fact. See Sanuto, in the Appendix to this tragedy.

8.

Say, conscript fathers, shall she be admitted?
Page 306, line 128.

The Venetian senate took the same title as the
Roman, of "Conscript Fathers."

9.

'Tis with age, then.

Page 310, line 33.

THESE!! few individuals can conceive, and none could describe the actual state into which the more than infernal tyranny of Austria has plunged this unhappy city.

11.

Then when the Hebrew's in thy palaces.
Page 310, line 87.

The chief palaces on the Brenta now belong to the Jews; who in the earlier times of the republic were only allowed to inhabit Mestri, and not to enter the city of Venice. The whole commerce is in the hands of the Jews and Greeks, and the Huns form the garrison.

12.

Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes. This was the actual reply of Bailli, maire of Page 311, line 9. Paris, to a Frenchman who made him the same reproach on his way to execution, in the earliest part Of the first fifty Doges, fire abdicated-five were of their revolution. I find in reading over, (since banished with their eyes put out-fire were MASSAthe completion of this tragedy,) for the first time CRED-and nine deposed; so that nineteen out of these six years, "Venice Preserved," a similar re-fifty lost the throne by violence, besides two who ply on a different occasion by Renault, and other fell in battle: this occurred long previous to the coincidences arising from the subject. I need reign of Marino Faliero. One of his more immehardly remind the gentlest reader, that such coin-diate predecessors, Andrea Dandolo, died of vexacidences must be accidental, from the very facility tion. Marino Faliero himself perished as related. of their detection by reference to so popular a play Among his successors, Foscari, after seeing his on the stage and in the closet as Otway's chef- son repeatedly tortured and banished, was deposed, d'œuvre. and died of breaking a blood-vessel, on hearing the bell of Saint Mark's toll for the election of his successor. Morosini was impeached for the loss of Candia; but this was previous to his dukedom, during which he conquered the Morea, and was styled "Thou the Peloponnesian. Faliero might truly say den of drunkards with the blood of princes!

10.

Beggars for nobles, panders for a people!

Page 310, line 86. Should the dramatic picture seem harsh, let the reader look to the historical, of the period prophesied, or rather of the few years preceding that period. Voltaire calculated their "nostre benemerite Meretrici" at 12,000 of regulars, without including volunteers and local militia, on what authority I know not; but it is perhaps the only part of the population not decreased. Venice once contained 200,000 inhabitants, there are now about 90,000, and Chronicle.

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"Un Capo de' Dicci" are the words of Sanuto's

APPENDIX TO MARINO FALIERO.

I.
MCCCLIV.

MARINO FALIERO DOGE XLIX.

e due Capi de' Quaranta. E che osservino la forma del suo Capitolare. E che Messer lo Doge si metta nella miglior parte, quando i giudici tra loro non fossero d'accordo. E ch' egli non possa far vendere i suoi imprestiti, salvo con legittima causa, e col voler di cinque Consiglieri, di due Capi de' QuaFu eletto da quarantuno Elettori, il quale era Ca- ranta, e delle due parti del Consiglio de' Pregati. valiere e conte di Valdemarino in Trivigiana, ed era Item, che in luogo di tre mila pelli di Conigli, che ricco, e si trovava ambasciadore a Roma. E a dì 9, debbon dare i Zaratini per regalia al Doge, non tro di Settembre, dopo sepolto il suo predecessore, fuvandosi tante pelli, gli diano Ducati ottanta l' anno. chiamato il gran Consiglio, e fu preso di fare il Doge E poi a dì 11, detto, misero etiam altre correzioni, giusta il solito. E furono fatti i cinque Correttori, che se il Doge, che sarà eletto, fosse fuori di VeneSer Bernardo Giustiniani Procuratore, Ser Paolo zia, i savj possano provvedere del suo ritorno. E Loredano, Ser Filippo Aurio, Ser Pietro Trivisano, quando fosse il Doge ammalato, sia Vicedoge uno e Ser Tommaso Viadro. I quali a dì 10, misero de' Consiglieri, da essere eletto tra loro. E che il queste correzioni alla promozione del Doge: che i detto sia nominato Viceluogotenente di Messer, lo Consiglieri non odano gli Oratori e Nunzi de' Sig- Doge, quando i giudici faranno i suoi attì. E nota, nori, senza i Capi de' quaranta, ne possano rispon- perche fu fatto Dege uno, ch' era assente, che fu dere ad alcuno, se non saranno quattro Consiglieri Vicedoge Ser Marino Badoero più vecchio de Con

siglieri. Item, che il governo del Ducato sia com-1 sente la sua amante, egli aveale scritte. Onde poi messo a Consiglieri, e a' Capi de' Quaranta, quando fu placitato nel detto Consiglio, e parve al Consiglio vacherà il Ducato finchè sarà eletto l'altro Doge. sì per rispetto all' età, come per la caldezza d'amore, E cosi a dì 11 di Settembre fu creato il prefato Ma- di condannarlo a compiere due mesi in prigione scrrino Faliero Doge. E fu preso, che il governo del rato, e poi ch' e' fosse bandito di Venezia e dal disDucato sia commesso a' Consiglieri e a' Capi de' tretto per un' anno. Per la qual condennagione Quaranta. I quali stiano in Palazzo di continuo, tanto piccola il Doge ne prese grande sdegno, parenno che verrà il Doge. Sicchè di continuo stiano dogli che non fosse stata fatta quella estimazione in Palazzo due Consiglieri e un Capo de Quaranta. della cosa, che ricercava la sua dignità del Ducato. E subito furono spedite lettere al detto Doge, il E diceva, ch' eglino doveano averlo fatto appiccare quale era a Roma Oratore al Legato di Papa Inno- per la gola, o saltem bandirlo in perpetuo da Venecenzo VI. ch' era in Avignone. Fu preso nel gran zia. E perchè (quando dee succedere un' effetto è Consiglio d' eleggere dodici ambasciadori incontro a necessario che vi concorra la cangione a fare tal' Marino Faliero Doge, il quale veniva da Roma. effetto) era destinato, che a Messer Marino Doge E giunto a Chioggia, il Podesta mandò Taddeo fosse tagliata la testa, perciò occorse, che entrata la Giustiniani suo figliuolo incontro, con quindici Quaresima il giorno dopo che fu condannato il detto Ganzaruoli. E poi venuto a S. Clemente nel Bucin- Ser Michele Steno, un gentiluomo da Cà Barbaro, toro, venne un gran caligo, adeo che il Bucintoro di natura collerico, andasse all' Arsenale, domannon ti potè levare. Laonde il Doge co' gentiluomini dasse certe cose ai Padroni, ed era alla presenza de' nelle piatte vennero di lungo in questa Terra a' Signori l'Ammiraglio dell' Arsenale. Il quale in 5 d'Ottobre del 1354. E dovendo smontare alla tesa la domanda, disse, che non si poteva fare riva della Paglia per lo caligo andarono ad ismon- Quel gentiluomo venne a parole coll' Ammiraglio, tare alla riva della Piazza in mezzo alle due colonne e diedegli un pugno su un'occhio. E perché avea dove si fa la Giustizia, che fu un malissimo augurio. un'anello in dito, coll' anello gli ruppe la pelle, e E a' 6, la mattina venne alla Chiesa di San Marco fece sangue. E l'Ammiraglio cosi battuto e insanalla laudazione di quello. Era in questo tempo guinato andò al Doge a lamentarsi, acciocchè il Doge Cancelier Grande Messer Benintende. I quaran- facesse fare gran punizione contra il detto da Cà tuno Elettori furonò, Ser Giovanni Contarini, Ser' Barbaro: Il Doge disse: Che vuoi che ti faccia? Andrea Giustiniani, Ser. Michele Morossini, Ser Guarda le ignominiose parole scritte di me, e il modo Simone Dandolo, Ser Pietro Lando, Ser Marino ch'è stato punito quel ribaldo di Michele Steno, che Gradenigo, Ser Marco Dolfino, Ser Nicolò Faliero, le scrisse. E quale stima hanno i Quaranta fatto Ser Giovanni Quirini, Ser Lorenzo Soranzo, Ser della persona nostra ? Laonde l'Ammiraglio gli Marco Bembo, Sere Stefano Belegno, Ser Francesco disse: Messer lo Doge, se voi volete farci Signore, e Loredano, Ser Marino Veniero, Ser Giovanni Mo-\fare tagliare tutti questi becchi gentiluomini a pezzi, cenigo, Ser Andrea Barbaro, Ser Lorenzo Barbarigo, mi basta l'animo, dandomi voi ajuto, di farvi Signore Ser Bettino da Mollino, Ser' Andrea Arizzo Procu- di questa Terra. E allora coi potrete castigare tutti ratore, Ser Marco Celsi, Ser Paolo Donato, Ser Ber-costoro. Inteso questo il Doge disse, Come si рио tucci Grimani, Ser Pietro Steno, Ser Luca Duodo, fare una simile cosa? E così entrarono in ragionaSer' Andrea Pisani, Ser Francesco Caravello, Ser mento.

Jacopo Trivisano, Sere Schiavo Marcello, Ser Maffeo "Il Doge mand) a chiamere Ser Bertuccio Faliero Aimo, Ser Marco Capello, Ser Pancrazio Giorgio, suo nipote, il quale stava con lui in Palazzo, e enSer Giovanni Foscarini, Ser Tomaso Viadro, Sere trarono in questa macchinazione. Ne si partirono Schiava Polani, Ser Marco Polo, Ser Marino Sagre- di lì, che mandarono per Filippo Calendaro, uomo do, Sere Stefano Mariani, Ser Francesco Suriano, marittimo e di gran seguito, e per Bertuccio IsraelSer Orio Pasqualigo, Ser' Andrea Gritti Ser Buono lo, ingegnere e uomo astutissimo. E consigliatisi da Mosto. insieme diede ordine di chiamare alcuni altri. E "Trattato di Messer Marino Faliero Doge, tratto così per alcuni giorni la notte si riducevano insieme da una Cronica antica. Essendo venuto il Giovedì in Palazzo in casa del Doge. E chiamarono a parte della Caccia, fu fatta giusta il solito la Caccia. E a parte altri, videlicet Niccol) Fagiuolo, Giovanni a' que' tempi dopo fatta la Caccia s'andava in Pa- da Corfù, Stefano Fagiano, Niccolò dalle Bende, lazzo del Doge in una di quelle sale, e con donne Niccolò Biondo, e Stefano Trivisano. E ordino di facevasi una festicciuola, dove si bellava fino alla fare sedici o diciassette Capi in diversi luoghi della prima campana, e veniva una colazione; la quale Terra, i qualiavessero cadaun di loro quarant' uomini spesa faceva Messer le Doge, quando v' era la Doga-provvigionati, preparati, non dicendo a' detti suoi ressa. E poscia tutti andavano a casa sua. Sopra quaranta quello, che volessero fare. Ma che il giorno la qual festa, pare, che Ser Michele Steno, molto stabilito si mostrasse di far quistione tra loro in digiovane e povero gentiluomo, ma ardito e astuto, il versi luoghi, acciocchè il Doge facesse sonare a San quale era innamorato in certa donzella della Doga- Marco le campane, le quali non si possono suonare, ressa, essendo sul Solajo appresso le donne, facesse s' egli nol comanda. E al suono delle campane cert' atto non conveniente, adeo che il Doge coman- questi sedici o diciasette co' suoi uomini venissero a dò ch' e' fosse buttato giù dal Solajo. E cosi quegli San Marco alle strade, che buttano in Piazza. scudieri del Doge lo spinsero giù di quel Solajo. così i nobili e primarj cittadini, che venissero in PiLaonde a Ser Michele parve, che fossegli stata fatta azza, per sapere del romore ciò ch'era, li tagliassero troppo grande ignominia. E non considerando al- a pezzi. E seguito questo, che fosse chiamato per tramente il fine, ma sopra quella passione fornita la Signore Messer Marino Faliero Doge. E fermate festa, e andati tutti via, quella notte egli andò, e le cose tra loro, stabilito fu, che questo dovess' essulla cadrega, dove sedeva il Doge nella Sala dell' sere a' 15 d'Aprile del 1355 in giorno di Mercoledì. Udienza (perchè allora i Dogi non tenevano panno La quale macchinazione trattata fu tra loro tantc di seta sopra la cadrega, ma sedevano in una cadre- segretamente, che mai nè pure se ne sospettò, non ga di legno) scrisse alcune parole disoneste del che se ne sapesse cos' alcuna. Ma il Signor' Iddio, Doge e della Dogaressa, cioè: Marin Faliero che ha sempre ajutato questa gloriosissima città e dalla bella moglie: Altri la gode, ed egli la mantiene. che per le santimonie e giustizie sue mai non l'ha E la mattina furono vedute tali parole scritte. E abbandonata, inspirò a un Beltramo Bergamasco il parve una brutta cosa. E per la Signoria fu com- quale fu messo Capo di quarant' uomini per uno de' inessa lacosa agli Avvogadori del Comune con detti congiurati (il quale intese qualche parola, grande efficacia. I quali Avvogadori subito diedero sicchè comprese l'effeto, che doveva succedere, e il taglia grande per venire in chiaro della verità di chi qual era di casa di Ser Niccolò Lioni di Santo Steavea scritto tal lettera. E tandem si seppe, che fano) di an dare a dì **** d'Aprile a casa del detto Michele Steno aveale scritte. E fu per li Quaranta Ser Niccolò Lioni. E gli disse ogni cosa dell' ordin preso di ritenerio; e ritenuto confesso, che in quella dato. Il quale intese le cose, rimase come morto; passione d'essere stato spinto giù dal Solajo, pre-le intese moltè particolarità, il detto Beltramo il

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