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THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN RUSKIN
VOLUME VII
STONES OF VENICE
VOLUME I
VENICE
VENICE
FROM A PAINTING BY
J. M. W. TURNER
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THE COMPLETE WORKS
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STONES OF VENICE
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VOLUME I.
THE FOUNDATIONS
PREFACE.
Iƿ the course of arranging the following essay, I put many things aside in my thoughts to be said in the Preface, things which I shall now put aside altogether, and pass by; for when a book has been advertised a year and a half, it seems best to present it with as little preface as possible.
Thus much, however, it is necessary for the reader to know, that, when I planned the work, I had materials by me, collected at different times of sojourn in Venice during the last seventeen years, which it seemed to me might be arranged with little difficulty, and which I believe to be of value as illustrating the history of Southern Gothic.
Requiring, however, some clearer assurance respecting certain points of chronology, I went to Venice finally in the autumn of 1849, not doubting but that the dates of the principal edifices of the ancient city were either ascertained, or ascertainable without extraordinary research. To my consternation, I found that the Venetian antiquaries were not agreed within a century as to the date of the building of the
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