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Chapter 4. Comincia Far Caldo.
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The Place of St. Mark is the heart of Venice, and from this beats her life in every direction through an intricate system of streets and canals that bring it back again to the same centre. So, if the slightest uneasiness had attended the frequency with which I lost my way in the city at first, there would always have been this comfort: that the place was very small in actual extent, and that if I continued walking I must reach the Piazza1 sooner or later. There is a crowd constantly tending to and from it, and you have but to take this tide, and be drifted to St. Mark’s—or to the Rialto Bridge, whence it is directly accessible.
Of all the open spaces in the city, that before the Church of St. Mark alone bears the name of Piazza, and the rest are called merely campi, or fields. But if the company of the noblest architecture can give honor, the Piazza San Marco merits its distinction, not in Venice only, but in the whole world; for I fancy that no other place in the world is set in such goodly bounds. Its westward2 length is terminated by the Imperial Palace; its lateral3 borders are formed by lines of palace called the New Procuratie on the right, and the Old Procuratie on the left; 10 and the Church of St. Mark fills up almost its whole width upon the east, leaving space enough, however, for a glimpse of the Gothic perfection of the Ducal Palace. The place then opens southward with the name of Piazzetta, between the eastern fa?ade of the Ducal Palace and the classic front of the Libreria Vecchia, and expands and ends at last on the mole4, where stand the pillars of St. Mark and St. Theodore; and then this mole, passing the southern fa?ade of the Doge’s Palace, stretches away to the Public Gardens at the eastern extremity6 of the city, over half a score of bridges, between lines of houses and shipping—stone and wooden walls—in the long, crescent-shaped quay7 called Riva degli Schiavoni. Looking northward8 up the Piazzetta from the Molo, the vision traverses the eastern breadth of the Piazza, and rests upon the Clock Tower, gleaming with blue and gold, on which the bronze Giants beat the hours; or it climbs the great mass of the Campanile San Marco,
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celestial
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lodging
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lagoon
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patriot
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velvet
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tumult
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controversy
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perusal
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doorways
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cravats
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smokers
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deliberately
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bosom
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linen
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mutual
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comely
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stylish
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civilian
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caress
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lagoons
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fiddles
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