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298 THE STONES OF VENICE
century, the window is perfectly prepared for a transition into the fifth order.
§ 32. The most perfect examples of the third order in Venice are the windows of the ruined palace of Marco Querini, the father-in-law of Bajamonte Tiepolo, in consequence of whose conspiracy against the government this palace was ordered to be razed in 1310;1 but it was only partially ruined, and was afterwards used as the common shambles. The Venetians have now made a poultry market of the lower story (the shambles being removed to a suburb), and a prison of the upper, though it is one of the most important and interesting monuments in the city, and especially valuable as giving us a secure date for the central form of these very rare transitional windows. For, as it
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was the palace of the father-in-law of Bajamonte, and the latter was old enough to assume the leadership of a political faction in 1280,* the date of the accession to the throne of the Doge Pietro Gradenigo, we are secure of this palace
* An account of the conspiracy of Bajamonte may be found in almost any Venetian history; the reader may consult Mutinelli, Annali Urbani, lib. iii.
1 [The closing of the Great Council (Serrar del Consiglio) in 1297 (see Vol. IX. p. 418), and the Papal Interdict in 1309 were followed by a serious conspiracy against the Doge Pietro Gradenigo (1289-1311) and the new oligarchy. The chief conspirators were Marco Querini, Bajamonte Tiepolo, and Badoer, and the place of meeting was the Ca’ Querini. Plans were laid for an attack on June 14, 1309, but the Doge got wind of the plot and defeated the conspirators in detail; Querini was slain, Badoer tried and executed, and Tiepolo banished. It seems to have been an elder Tiepolo, Jacopo, who was the leader of a faction, and a popular candidate for the dogeship, at the earlier date (1280) mentioned further on in the text. The “ruined palace,” just above the Rialto, is now being restored in the style of the original building, with additions, to make it into a fish market.]
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