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The reference is to Vettor Pisani, a Venetian naval commander. He was imprisoned by the Venetians after his defeat by the Genoese in the War of Chioggia in 1379. His ‘liberation’ was the result of popular demand. He recaptured Chioggia which had been besieged and taken by the Genoese, and died in 1380.
What follows on Notebook M2 p.12backL is the continuation of the note from Zanotto which started on Notebook M2 p.13backL, the page numbered by Ruskin 217. It is written as if Ruskin had the book open from the other end, that is, it appears to be upside down in comparison with the passage immediately above in this transcript. It seems to belong with the notes taken from Zanotto at Notebook M2 p.16.
The first part is closely followed at Works, 11.97, which gives Ruskin’s version of the inscription on the Frari tomb of Simon Dandolo and refers to the Annunciation group and the fact that Simon Dandolo was a member of the ‘Giunta’ which condemned Falier. Works, 11.101 similarly draws on the second part in its account of the tomb of Jacopo Cavalli in SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Leopold of Austria, and the siege of Feltre, and at Works, 11.303 which refers to Malamocco, and Cavalli’s wife Constance.
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