BOOK VI 41-76

Journal from Paris to Venice--The Jura--The Alps--Milan--Verona--The roll-call of the dead--The Brenta--Incidental remarks--Venice--Venetian architecture--Antonio--The Abbé Betio and M. Gamba--The rooms in the Palace of the Doges--Prisons--Silvio Pellico's prison--The Frari--The Academy of Fine Arts--Titian's _Assumption_--The metopes of the Parthenon--Original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo and Raphael--The Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo--The Arsenal--Henry IV.--A frigate leaving for America--The Cemetery of San Cristoforo--San Michele di Murano--Murano--The woman and the child--Gondoliers--Bretons and Venetians--Breakfast on the Riva degli Schiavoni--The tomb of Mesdames at Trieste--Rousseau and Byron--Great geniuses inspired by Venice--Old and new courtezans--Rousseau and Byron compared