"And many a fare I pay to light the traghetto of San Nicolò; with an ave for the favor of the Blessed Mother to confound the scoundrel Castellani, who threw a good Nicolotto over the Ponte Senza Parapetti, in the last fight; and it cost us oil enough to light Venice for a yearfaith of San Nicolò!to keep them from winning at our regattamaledetti!"

So the rival faction of the Castellani bore marvelous testimony to his mastery when they went over in surprising numbers from along the Giudecca, and underwent the strange ceremonial of baptism into the opposition party.

Should not the Nicolottiblessed be the Madonna!always overcome the Castellani with Piero at their head, in those party battles on the bridges which had now grown to be as serious a factor in the lives of the gondoliers of Venice as they were disturbing to the citizens at large, and therefore the more to the glory of the combatants?

"Eccellenza, we are enough," the bancalo answered fearlessly, and with a significant pause, "to prove the will of the peopleas well Nicolotti as Castellani.

[Sidenote: Castellani] The Venetians send euery two yeres new rulers, which they call Castellani.

[Sidenote: Castellani] The Venetians send euery two yeres new rulers, which they call Castellani.

She herself is buried close by, in the chapel of the Castellani.

To the della Robbias we come in the Castellani chapel in the right transept, which has two full-length statues by either Luca or Andrea, in the gentle glazed medium, of S. Francis and S. Bernard, quite different from anything we have seen or shall see, because isolated.

We were lately lounging away a Roman morning among the gems in Castellani's sparkling rooms in the Via Poli.

Castellani junior, a fine, patriotic young fellow, who has since been banished for his liberal ideas of government, smiled as he read astonishment in our eyes, and proceeded forthwith to dazzle us still further with more gems of rarest beauty, till then hidden away in his strong iron boxes.

Castellani, father and son, are princes among jewellers, and deserve to be ranked as artists of a superior order.

Castellani's jeweller's shop has existed in Rome since the year 1814.

At that time all the efforts of this artist (Castellani the elder) were directed to the imitation of the newest English and French fashions, and particularly to the setting of diamonds.

All were struck by the beauty of the jewels found in the tombs; but Castellani was the first who thought of reproducing some of them; and he did it to the great admiration of the amateurs, foremost among whom may be mentioned the Duke Don Michelangelo Caetani, a man of great artistic feeling, who aided by his counsels and his designs the renaissance of Roman jewelry.

The articles of gold found in it (all now in the Vatican) were diligently studied by Castellani, when called upon to appraise them.

Thus it went on improving; and Castellani produced very expert pupils, all of them Italians.

Fashion, if not public feeling, came to aid the renaissance, and others, in Rome and elsewhere, undertook similar work after the models of Castellani.

Castellani renounced the modern methods of chasing and engraving, and adhered only to the antique fashion of overlaying with cords, grains, and finest threads of gold.

The work of Castellani is dear; but that results from his method of execution, and from the perfect finish of all the details.

It was given me by Castellani, who, not being initiated, had received it from a brother known to him.

Canandaigua, U.S. corvette, at Crete Candanos, collision between Mussulmans and Christians at serious fight at relief of Cass, Major Castellani, Sig.

CASTELLANI.

By Castellani, Morini, Bonagura & others.

By Castellani, Morini, Bonagura & others.

A portrait by her is in the Castellani Collection, dated 1589; "St. Monica," "Judith," and the "Healing of St. Agatha" are in the Ravenna Academy; a "Virgin and Child" is in the Louvre, and "Mary with the Children" in the Dresden Gallery. <b>LONGMAN, E. B.</b>