. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ^ of the Durazzo family, waspurchased by Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, and hasthus become a royal residence. The Palazzo Ducale,once inhabited by the Doges of Genoa, has now beenconverted into public offices, and the palazzo oppositeto the Church of St. Matteo bears an inscription whichof itself gives the building an exceptional interest: Senat. Cons. Andrea; de Oria, patriae liberatori, munus. ANDREA DORIA 173 publicum. It is this, the earUer home of the great citi-zen of Genoa, of which Rogers has written in the often-quoted
. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . ^ of the Durazzo family, waspurchased by Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, and hasthus become a royal residence. The Palazzo Ducale,once inhabited by the Doges of Genoa, has now beenconverted into public offices, and the palazzo oppositeto the Church of St. Matteo bears an inscription whichof itself gives the building an exceptional interest: Senat. Cons. Andrea; de Oria, patriae liberatori, munus. ANDREA DORIA 173 publicum. It is this, the earUer home of the great citi-zen of Genoa, of which Rogers has written in the often-quoted lines:— He left it for a better; and tis nowA house of trade, the meanest merchandiseCumbering its floors. Yet, fallen as it is,Tis still the noblest dwelling—even in Genoa!And hadst thou, Andrea, lived there to the last,Thou hadst done well: for there is that without,That in the wall, which monarchs could not giveNor thou take with thee—that which says aloud,It was thy countrys gift to her deliverer! The great statesman lies in the neighboring church,with other members of his family, and over the high altarhangs the sword which was given to him by the church was greatly altered—embellished it wasdoubtless supposed—by Doria himself; but the old clois-ters, dating from the earliest part of the fourteenth cen-tury, still remain intact. The grander palazzo which heerected, as an inscription outside still informs us, was ina more open, a
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