Nan's mind was at this time filled with Dante, and Florence, and the young Raphael, and the doge wedding the Adriatic, and Pompeii, and Savonarola, and goodness knows what else.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
In our own National Gallery we have the portrait of the doge Loredan, which is one of those pictures which can teach you many things when you have learned to look with seeing eyes.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman
Go now to the doge and tell him all thou hast seen; how Venice would have been destroyed by the demons of the tempest, had it not been for me and my two companions.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman