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The house mentioned at Notebook M2 p.70 is presumably the building at Cannaregio 5643 by the Ponte SS. Apostoli, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 17.
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It is also presumably the building mentioned in the note at Notebook M p.160L, apparently a later note attempting to chart the transition from Byzantine to Gothic styles. Otherwise there is no reference to it in M. It is mentioned in notes at Notebook M2 p.2 and Notebook M2 p.5L in passages analysing the transition between Byzantine and Gothic features, and the date for it in Zanotto (1847) is given at Notebook M2 p.32. It is not described in any detail until Notebook M2 p.70 and Sheet Nos. 137 and 138 [n/a], which on the assumption that sheets are numbered chronologically is after Sheet No. 134, which is based on evidence collected on 24th February (see Notebook M p.197L).
In the Index to M2 under ‘Capitals’ there is a reference to ‘Falier’ at Notebook M2 p.70, which is clearly right, but also to House Book 2 p.12. It is difficult to make sense of that second reference. In the small notebooks there does not appear to be any clear reference to the Cannaregio 5643 Falier house. However it is illustrated in Plate 15 at Works, 10.295, and at the plate facing Works, 11.266. There are references at Works, 9.336, 341; Works, 11.266, 272, 276, 377.
At House Book 1 p.12L there is a reference to a house ‘called Falier by Valet’. That, though, as Ruskin recognises is the Palazzo Contarini Degli Scrigni and Corfu at Dorsoduro 1057. It is made up of two linked buildings, one of the 15th Century, the other in classical style designed by Scamozzi. [Scamozzi's work here was intended to fit the earlier building, and so makes an interesting comparison with his work on the Procuratie Nuove in St. Mark’s Square and on the extension of the Sansovino Library to join the Zecca - not of interest to Ruskin, though, because it does not relate to his aims here.]
House Book 1 p.37, House Number 32, is the Palazzo Falier Canossa at San Marco 2914. At House Book 1 p.37L Ruskin had written ‘This house is the old Casa Falier’, but then crossed out the comment, presumably when he discovered that it was not the old Casa Falier. This is the house illustrated at Works, 10.304.
It is possible that, as with the Palazzo Cavalli near the Post Office , the lack of references in the small notebooks to the Palazzo Falier is the result of Ruskin’s not becoming familiar with it until the work reported at Notebook M2 p.70 towards the end of February, and the end of his stay in Venice.
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