ed to be threatening death and destruction from out the distant sea
and the vaporous clouds which enshrouded St. Mark's. They now had a
clear conception of the deeper significance of the charming picture;
but so often as they looked upon it again, all the sympathetic sorrow
which they had felt at the history of Antonio and Annunciata's love
returned upon them and filled the deepest recesses of their souls with
its pleasurable awe.

FOOTNOTES TO "THE DOGE AND DOGESS."

[Footnote 1: Written for the _Taschenbuch der Liebe und Freundschaft
gewidmet_, 1819; edited by S. Schuetze, Frankfort-on-Main.]

[Footnote 2: C W. Kolbe, junr., historical and genre painter, was born
in 1781 and died in 1853.]

[Footnote 3: The story _Turandot_ has a history. Its prototype is in
the Persian poet Nizami (1141-1203). From Gozzi it was translated into
German by Werthes; and it was from his translation that Schiller worked
up his play in November and December, 1801. The proud Turandot,
daughter of the Emperor of China, entertains such loathing of marriage
that she rejects all suitors, until on her father's threatening to
compel her to wed, she institutes a kind of version of the caskets in
the _Merchant of Venice_. Any prince may woo for her, but in a peculiar
way. He must solve three riddles in the full assembly of the court. If
he succeeds, he wins the princess; if he does not succeed, he loses his
own head. In Gozzi the three riddles are about the Year, the Sun, and
(extremely inapposite to the circumstances) the Lion of the Adriatic.
The two last Schiller replaced by riddles about the Eye and the
Plough.]

[Footnote 4: Calaf, Prince of Astrakhan, successfully solves the
riddles and wins the Princess Turandot.]

[Footnote 5: The story of this Doge's conspiracy has furnished
materials for a tragedy to Byron (1821), Casimir Delavinge (1829), and
Albert Lindner (1875). A translation of the story is given by Mr. F.
Cohen (Sir F. Palgrave) from Sanuto's _Chronicle_, in the Appendix to
the play in Byron's works.]

[Footnote 6: Paganino Dona, one of the greatest of Genoese admirals,
took and burnt Parenzo, a town on the west coast of Istria, on the 11th
of August, 1354. At this period the rivalry between the two republics,
Venice and Genoa, in their commercial relations with the East and in
the Black Sea, was especially bitter, and they were almost constantly
at war with each other.]

[Footnote 7: Andrea Dandolo (1307-1354), Doge from