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                                                                      	Doges Palace.  Bettio’s account setting aside his assump-
                                                                      tions that it is Salundario’s work, is all right as far
                                                                      as page 10. but then comes his curious blunder in his
                                                                      desire to correct Crecognans.  The former is indeed
                                                                      wrong in saying dopo le prima sei secate;  right in mark-
                                                                      ing the beginning of the sala del Socraturio and Bettio
                                                                      has missed the real place of junction in his desire to
                                                                      correct Cicoguana - himself concluding that the larger
                                                                      column is the mark of it.
                                                                            A	But, if as I once fancied, there was an arcade all round
                                                                      Calendono, work, this larger column ought indeed to have
                                                                      been at the angle  This is a great puzzle.
                                                                      Torrosella.  This word explained by Bettio p 23
                                                                      Note by the bye, Sausovino attribution of the redand white
                                                                      facade to the Foscari p 3o9 and consider the top of the
                                                                      campanile worked in same way.
                                                                             B.	Then - see what Bettio quotes at p 27 of Sausovnio which
                                                                      must be spurious, for I don’t think that bas relief of
                                                                      Venice in[s] Calendario’s work at all
                                                                               Next½  Bettio supposes that from the two great arches, there
                                                                      was a grand staircase down, and at p 27, 2u he gets very
                                                                      interesting, quoting mention in Swiss Chronicle of the
                                                                      old palace which was knocked down in 1423, or 4.  Now there

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