* ‘On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic’ (1807).

† ‘De Gustibus’ (1855).

‡ In one of his more intemperate moments Ruskin declared of San Giorgio Maggiore that it was ‘impossible to conceive a design more gross, more barbarous, more childish in conception, more servile in plagiarism, more insipid in result, more contemptible under every point of rational regard’.

§ In fact the condition was not strictly obeyed. Although Colleoni had stipulated the Piazza San Marco as the location, the state decided to erect Verrocchio’s great equestrian statue in a lesser place with a similar name, outside the Scuola di San Marco in the sestiere of Castello.