Many years later I saw in an exhibition a pen and ink drawing by Francesco Guardi. Heightened by black chalk and a brown wash, the drawing recorded one of the most spectacular festivals of eighteenth-century Venice. "The Festa della Sensa,'' the catalogue said, "celebrated annually the marriage of the City of Venice and the Adriatic in commemoration of the conquest of Dalmatia by Doge Pietro Oresolo.'' Off S. Nico di Lido, a procession of gondolas escorted the state barge back to the city. Pennants flew from the masthead.
    The drawing brought to mind our arrival in Venice by gondola that long ago afternoon. Roger on the stone pier, dressed in his Fortuny cape, arms outstretched. A genial condottiere! I imagined then, as if in a dream, a different funeral than the simple one he was given several months after his return.

  - William M. Roth

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