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‘Manfuni’ in the Ruskin Library Transcript T7A at Notebook M p.116 seems a simple misreading. The reference seems to be to the Palazzo Venier Manfrin at Cannaregio 343, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav.7, an art gallery in the nineteenth century but here used simply to define the location.
See House Book 2 p.18L and House Book 2 p.17 - though the house he calls Manfrini and describes there cannot be the Palazzo Manfrini (Ruskin’s identification) or the Palazzo Labia, or the Palazzo Savorgnan - none of them have the Gothic characteristics of the house described by Ruskin. The confusion is odd since Ruskin was already familiar with the Palazzo Manfrin as an art gallery, as is shown in the 1843 edition of Modern Painters Vol 1 (Works, 3.337 [n/a], and compare Works, 11.391).
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