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Any story of growth and decline requires a firm chronological sequence - the date of the Ducal palace and its constituent parts was therefore the focus of detailed archival research by Ruskin, with assistance from Rawdon Brown and Giambattista Lorenzi. For Ruskin’s bibliography see Works, 10.336; for Ruskin’s frustration at what he saw as the ‘confusion’ of the historical record see Works, 9.xxx; for Ruskin’s views on the interruption of work on the Ducal Palace caused by the execution of Calendario see Works, 10.345; on Ruskin’s evidence for the execution of Calendario see Notebook M2 p.42; for a published account of the evidence about Calendario that Ruskin was using and his views on the problems of attribution see Works, 11.247.
On Notebook M2 pp.11L and 11 the letters A,B,C in the margins - and the lines to the side picking out those paragraphs - suggest the beginning of Ruskin’s organisation of the material. Much of it is struck through, but seemingly more as a mark that the material has been used than a mark of rejection. There are different kinds of striking out of paragraphs on these pages, perhaps evidence that each was struck out as it was used.
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