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Length of sides of Ducal palace                                       	This beautiful leaf moulding (of apple leaves and
                                                                      small apples?) the little round fruit exquisitely set,
                 Piazzetta                                            in its calyx and the leaves slid over each other most
                                                                      delicately belongs to the 9th capital of p 28 Gothic book
                                                                      That capital is remarkable for its picturesque setting
                 In this figure the curves are a x d e a[r]           of leaves;  though iy has nothing but leaves.  Its central
	are of course exaggerated for clearness;                             leaf lobe fig 1 p 24 palace book.
                        	it is only the curve of the plinth at shaft  Summary of views of Zanotto about Ducal palace.
	base;  and b c f g are the main bearing                              The first mentions Palacepazio but not quoting the Savine
	pilasters on each side;                                              Chronicles, which I must, first entry and second,
	Then, measuring along edge of plinth just                            m[,]en[m]tioned by Zanotteo
	as I did before;  and have noted somewhere                               B	That it was destroyed at revolt against Canchano rebuilt
	a b - x c d - 30 x 7 x 14 x 21 " 2                                   and in a stat[z]e to receive Emperor Otho lll between 991
	            -210 x 36 " 2                                            1009 and in 1116 Henry 5th
          and adding 3 for pilaster - 28 " 2                          Then he refers to Altimat Chronicle;  for notices of
          e f x g h - 30 x 7 x 21 " 7 x 1 " 6                         decoration of palace in 1172, and to 1300.
 	     -210 x 23 " 1                                                      1301.	He refers to Sansovino for beginning of great council
          and adding 3 for pilaster - 236 " 1                         chamber or ratehr "il salone sopra il rio di palazo appros
The piazzetta side is longest therefore only by 12 feet and           so ul quale error vi la canelleria e la gabbia chianator
even this does not take into account the thickness of                     A	poi terresella fruito l’anno 1309
wall h i but this woul[,]d be nearly balanced by diameter of          Then quoting the Cadovin decrees as at page 11, above, -
shaft at a x.                                                         he insists that this Council chamber, and with it the main
                                                                      part of the palace fronting the sea

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