rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_36d750c8-c4bc-5e26-bbe0-566791789a38">54 In early days every noble Venetian family had its chaplain, who, on the occasion of great dinners and suppers, remained in the kitchen, and received as one of his perquisites the fragments that came back from the table.
55 The only title conferred on any patrician of Venice during the Republic was Cavaliere, and this was conferred by a legislative act in reward of distinguished service. The names of the nobility were written in the Golden Book of the Republic, and they were addressed as Illustrissimo or Eccellenza. They also signed themselves nobile, between the Christian name and surname, as it is still the habit of the untitled nobility to do.
56 A count who doesn’t count (money) counts for nothing.
57 Mutinelli, Gli Ultimi Cinquant’ Anni della Repubblica di Veneza.
ITALIAN JOURNEYS
III. The Picturesque, the Improbable, and the Pathetic in Ferrara
VI. By Sea From Genoa to Naples
IX. A Half-Hour at Herculaneum
XI. The Protestant Ragged Schools at Naples
V. Possagno, Canova's Birthplace
Stopping at Vicenza, Verona, and Parma
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