A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volume 1 |
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Page 158 - Venier was doge, his son having committed an offence which evidently sprung from mere youthful levity, and nothing worse, was condemned in a fine of one hundred ducats, and to be imprisoned for a certain time. While the young man was in prison, he fell sick, and petitioned to be removed to a purer air. The doge rejected the petition ; declaring, that the sentence must be executed literally ; and that his son must take the fortune of others in the same predicament.
Page 267 - Turk had secretly placed fireworks under the chapel, with an intention to blow it up, they affirm, that St. Antonio hallooed three times from his marble coffin, which terrified the infidel, and discovered the plot. This miracle is the more miraculous, as the saint's tongue was cut out, and is actually preserved in a crystal vessel, and shewn as a precious relic to all who have a curiosity to see it.
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