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THE PIAZZA DI SAN MARCO.
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a vast number of buckles, and two long drop-curls on the
neck. A great number of diamond-pins and strings of
pearl adorned their heads, with large sultanes or feathers
on one side, and magnificent diamond ear-rings.
“ The bride was dressed in cloth of silver, made in the
same fashion and decorated in the same manner as the
other ladies ; but her bosom was quite bare, and she had
a fine diamond necklace, and an enormous bouquet of
natural flowers. Her hair was dressed as high as the
others, with this difference, that it was in curls behind
as well as before, and had three curls which fell down
her back from her poll, the two side ones reaching half
way down her back, and the middle curl not quite so far.
These three curls had a singular appearance, but not near
so good an effect as the heads of the other ladies, whose
hair was plaited in large folds, and appeared much more
graceful. Her diamonds were very fine and in great pro-
fusion. She is but seventeen years old, is of a comely sort
of beauty, and very full grown of her age. All the ladies
that walked, about sixty in number, were relations or in-
timate friends to the young couple; many of them ex-
tremely handsome. The men appeared to me to be all
alike; they were dressed in black gowns like lawyers,
with immense periwigs. The bridegroom, a slender, fair,
little man, seemed to be much charmed with his new
wife; he very politely sent us the epithalamiums and
other poems made on the occasion, elegantly covered
and adorned with engravings.”
The traveller who, for the first time, visits the casinos
of St. Mark’s Place, no doubt expects to find them filled
with cicisbeos. Against this singular class of persons
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a vast number of buckles, and two long drop-curls on the
neck. A great number of diamond-pins and strings of
pearl adorned their heads, with large sultanes or feathers
on one side, and magnificent diamond ear-rings.
“ The bride was dressed in cloth of silver, made in the
same fashion and decorated in the same manner as the
other ladies ; but her bosom was quite bare, and she had
a fine diamond necklace, and an enormous bouquet of
natural flowers. Her hair was dressed as high as the
others, with this difference, that it was in curls behind
as well as before, and had three curls which fell down
her back from her poll, the two side ones reaching half
way down her back, and the middle curl not quite so far.
These three curls had a singular appearance, but not near
so good an effect as the heads of the other ladies, whose
hair was plaited in large folds, and appeared much more
graceful. Her diamonds were very fine and in great pro-
fusion. She is but seventeen years old, is of a comely sort
of beauty, and very full grown of her age. All the ladies
that walked, about sixty in number, were relations or in-
timate friends to the young couple; many of them ex-
tremely handsome. The men appeared to me to be all
alike; they were dressed in black gowns like lawyers,
with immense periwigs. The bridegroom, a slender, fair,
little man, seemed to be much charmed with his new
wife; he very politely sent us the epithalamiums and
other poems made on the occasion, elegantly covered
and adorned with engravings.”
The traveller who, for the first time, visits the casinos
of St. Mark’s Place, no doubt expects to find them filled
with cicisbeos. Against this singular class of persons