Venice needs a whole library to describe her:  a book on her churches and a book on her palaces; a book on her painters and a book on her sculptors; a book on her old families and a book on her new; a book on her builders and a book on her bridges; a book—­but why go on?  The fact is self-evident.

Yet there is something that a single book can do:  it can testify to delight received and endeavour to kindle an enthusiasm in others; and that I may perhaps have done.

INDEX

    Accademia, the, 98, 168.

    Adriatic espousals, 27, 54, 161, 263.

    Alberghetti, 75.

    Albrizzi, Countess, and Byron, 132.

    Alexander III., Pope, 18, 53, 54.

    Americans, 65, 259.

    Amleto, performance of, 163.

    Animals, 250.

    Architects, Venetian, 93.

    Armenian monastery, 299.

    Armenian proverbs, 304.

    Arsenal, the, 166, 263.

    Artists, modern, 14, 272, 276, 306.

    Austrian rule in Venice, 12, 13, 106-107, 162.

    Austrian tourists, 13, 32.

    Barbarigo, Cardinal Gregorio, 125, 147.

    Barbarigo, Pietro, Patriarch of Venice, 97.

    Barbaro, Marc Antonio, 147.

    Basaiti, pictures by, 96, 154, 169, 172, 190.

    Bathing, 268.

    Bead-workers, 202.

    Beauharnais, Eugene, Prince of Venice, 12.

    Beerbohm, Max, 104.

    Bellini, Gentile, pictures by, 10, 51, 257.
      his “Holy Cross” pictures, 179-180.
      his S. Lorenzo Giustinian, 180.
      his tomb, 256.

    Bellini, Giovanni, pictures by, 50, 51, 63, 118, 125, 154, 169, 172,
    192, 193, 203, 208, 215, 219, 224, 249, 259, 283.
      his “Agony,” 169.
      his “Loredano,” 169.
      his “Peter Martyr,” 169.
      his career, 190.
      and the Venetian School, 193.
      his last picture, 224.
      his tomb, 256.

    Bellotto, Bernardo, see Canaletto.

    Benedict, S., his life in panels, 200.

    Benzoni, Countess, and Byron, 138, 139.

    Beppo, Byron’s, 134, 290.

    Berri, Duchesse de, in Venice, 122.

    Bissolo, picture by, 173.

    Boccaccini, Boccaccio, picture by, 190.

    Bon, Bartolommeo, 73, 232.

    Bon, Giovanni, 73.

    Bon, Pacifico, his tomb, 251.

    Bonconsiglio, picture by, 170.

    Boni, Giacomo, 86.

    Bonington in Venice, 272.
      picture by, 273.

    Book-shops, 229.

    Bordone, Paris, his “Fisherman and Doge,” 177.
      picture by, 284.

    Bovolo staircase, 285.

    Bowls, 226.

    Bragadino, his career, 257.
      his tomb, 257.