Out of these four days three of them are rainy. Occupied myself with the Italian poets and packing books and paintings - have made a further purchase - viz washing black white - the portrait of a Doge and two paintings of the Flemish school - flowers, fruit tapestry etc. The four for 23 Napoleons.

After dinner spent an hour at Florian's and once at the opera, hear the old gentlemen and nobility at the coffee house talking of the death of one of their number, who died in a sudden fit of anger. Having a few days before broken an arm by falling on the icy steps of one of the numerous bridges of Venice, he was of the family of Corner, the same street that produced the celebrated queen of Cypress. So conspicuous in the history of Venice. He was a traveler, having been to Mexico and the United States. Once wealthy but in his latter years dilapidated as most of the old Venetian nobility are -