The pliant gondola obeyed, and amid a shout which passed from the Piazzetta to the Rialto, it glided ahead.

I met an ancient fellow in the Piazzetta about the time the masquers came in, and we had some words on this matter.

Thence, the whole issued into the Piazzetta in order, and proceeded to their several stations on the canopied deck of the well known bark.

The sun was setting on the second day of June, in the year 1701, when Pietro Falier, the Captain of the Police of Venice, quitted his office in the Piazzetta of St. Mark and set out, alone, for the Palace of Frà Giovanni, the Capuchin friar, who lived over on the Island of the Guidecca.