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                                                                                                        FRARI.
                                                                      
                                                                      	Pisaro’s, I believe it neither one nor the other, are
                                                                      his.   Note.  the Dominican churches for comparison St
                                                                      Agostino in Padua and Anastasia Verona.
                                                                          (5)  Frari.  The Franciscans came to Venice after death of St
                                                                          4 1250	Francis in 1227 to establish their rule there.
                                                                      After much preparation, the first stone was laid in 1250
                                                                      Called Ca’ Grande, as the largest of these dedicated to
                                                                      the Virgine  de Frari, or Frati Minori.  In 1280
	q.  date of Savella                                                  Nicolas 4th granted indulgences to whoever would
                                                                      help it.
                                                                      	Paolo Savelli.  The condottier, spent much money on
                                                                      the vaulting (volte)  He sleeps there.  The doge Grademig[h]o
                                                                      	left money for it.  Another Grademigo erected 4 columns
                                                                      with their pklasters:  The Doge Francesco Dandolo, who
                                                                      regiend from 1328 to 1338 finished it with his own
                                                                      money;  it was not however it appears finished till after
                                                                      his death, nor consecrated till 1492.
                                                                      The Tower was begun by the patrician Tommaso Viero
                                                                      and finished by the merchants of Monza and Milan who so-
                                                                      journed (struziniao) a Venezia;  in 1396.
                                                                      The bas relief over lateral door they ascribe to Parrebbe
                                                                      of the school of the Peolardo.

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