Rose this morning somewhat better - drank warm Tea - Signora Barbini - my kindly paid me a visit - a very sensible woman, and shall take every opportunity of cultivating her acquaintance - have taken her rooms for a month at 140 Austrian lires - they are pleasantly situated on the Grand Canal and in sight of the Bridge of the Rialto. At 11 o clock - Mons. Simos and Stephano called on me - went together to visit the church Dei Frari a magnificent structure by the architect Nicola Pisano - near a small side alter are deposited the remains of the immortal Titian - who died in the time of plagues and has no monument. An old woman on her knees at the alter pointed out to me the spot - where is simply cut on the stone - "Here lie the remains of Titian Veccellio the emulator of Zeuxis and Apelles."

The church is immensely rich in statuary and paintings - there are monuments of Several Doges - that of the Doge Pesaro - supported on colossal figures of negro men is an extensive and costly pile. Next to it is the monument lately erected to the memory of Canova - a copy of one the sculptor himself constructed in Vienna to the memory of Maria Terese in the Augustine church-close to the Frari is the Scuola di San Rocco - which is highly praised for its architecture, and internally covered with the works of Tintoretto.

The day rather cloudy, and time has somewhat bedimmed the works of the great Venetian painter - felt much better after the exercise of the day - but ate little or nothing -