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Giustiniani Foscari (Dorsoduro 3232, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 40). Zanotto (1847) II.ii.424 refers to ‘due palazzi Giustiniani’ next to the ‘Foscari’. ‘Young Foscari’ is the name used by Ruskin of the house at Dorsoduro 3232 next to the Ca’ Foscari at Dorsoduro 3246. Ruskin comments at Works, 11.388, in the Venetian Index, under the heading ‘Giustiniani, Palazzo’. He remarks there that he is following popular custom in using the term ‘Young Foscari’, as at Notebook M p.67 and Notebook M p.123, or ‘Younger Foscari’, as in the Venetian Index. The idea was that it was made for the son of the Doge, the younger Foscari rather than his father. Ruskin’s Index to M2 makes it clear that this is the house he is referring to at House Book 1 p.18 and House Book 1 p.63L. There are notes on the dating of it at Notebook M2 p.33, and a note, presumably about the same building, in the context of discussion of the development of circle moulding at Notebook M2 p.3. The index to M2 also makes a reference to House Book 2 p.31, but that seems to be a reference to House Book 2 p.31L, to which the heading, though not the text, on House Book 2 p.31 refers. Presumably page House Book 2 p.31L was used out of sequence by Ruskin because he had nothing else available for his drawing. There are drawings of tracery bars, 14 and 20 of Plate 11 facing Works, 11.285, and a base profile, 14, at Plate 10 facing Works, 9.336.
It is not the Palazzo Giustiniani Morosini at San Marco 1364, which became Albergo Europa and is referred to as the Hotel de l’Europe at House Book 1 p.32, and at Works, 11.377 and Works, 11.388.
The reference to the ‘Young Foscari’ on this page is in a different ink from the rest of the page indicating that the main content has been written later. This is about House No 73 the Palazzo Mastelli Spada which does contain Byzantine fragments and visual reference to North African origins of the Mastelli family.
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