Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . is house was Andrea Dorias. Here he lived;And here at eve relaxing, when ashore,Held many a pleasant, many a grave discourseWith them that sought him, walking to and froAs on his deck. Tis less in length and breathThan many a cabin in a ship of war;But tis of marble, and at once inspiresThe reverence due to ancient 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
Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and art . is house was Andrea Dorias. Here he lived;And here at eve relaxing, when ashore,Held many a pleasant, many a grave discourseWith them that sought him, walking to and froAs on his deck. Tis less in length and breathThan many a cabin in a ship of war;But tis of marble, and at once inspiresThe reverence due to ancient 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 give,Nor thou take with thee—that which says aloud,It was thy countrys gift to her deliverer. —Samuel Rogers. * Ah! what avails it, Genoa, now to theeThat Doria, feared by monarchs, once wasthine?Univied ruin! In thy sad declineFrom virtuous greatness, what avails that heWhose prow descended first the Hesperian sea,And gave our world her mate beyond thebrine, 22. The Doria Palace. (Tenoa The Time, The Place and The Man. Was nurtured, whilst an infant, at thy knee?—All things must perish,—all but things divine. —Aubrey de Vere. We see in that old palace another AndreaDoria painted by Titian and also by SebastianoPiambo, the Venetians; we see Charles V pre-senting a dog to Andrea. We see the knockerof the door sculptured by no less a personagethan Benvenuto Cellini, the Florentine. Tintoretto painted the marriage in the fam-ily which occurred in 941—a retrospection. In the old church of San Matteo also are pre-served their family records from the tenth cen-tury to the present time, and in Rome, in theCorso, is their still more famous palace. Andrea Doria did not conquer at Chioggia,but in an encounter in earlier years, a prisonerof war was brought from Venice to Genoa—none other than the renowned Marco Polo, thetraveler in the dazzlingly splendid East. What boy of Genoa has not heard re
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