Χειρόγραφο σημείωμα του Ε.Βενιζέλου σχετικά με την γοτθική τέχνη και την αρχιτεκτονική στην Βενετία.

H Bouloum leon e Venele exepiord de ta oisodopie, to Dounemoi Deykli se dvo dianeroppevei epipodo. The part of the palace in which the two lower windows occur was first built and arranged in four stories in order to obtain the necessary number of apartments. The ducal Palace, which was the great work of Venice, was built successively in the three styles—Byzantine, gothic, and Renaissance. The Gothic Ducal Palace superseded the first totally; a few stones of it (if indeed so much) are all that is left.—But the Third superseded the second in part only, and the existing building is formed by the union of the two. In the year of the death of Charlemagne (813) the Venitians determined to make the island of Rialto the seat of government and capital of their State. Their Doge, Angelo Participazio, built the Church of St Mark, and on or near the spot where the Ducal Palace now stands, he built a Palace for the administration of the government. This first Palace was burnt partially injured by fire in the revolt against Gardiano II and for the second time in the year 1106, but repaired before 1116. Between 1173 and the close of the century, it seems to have been again repaired and much enlarged by the Doge Se- vartiani Zani. After this enlargement the palace seems to have remained untouched for a hundred years, until, in the commencement of the fourteenth century, the work of the gothic palace were begun. The gothic Palace. Owing to the change in the government under the Doge Pietro gradenigo (1297) by the establishment of The aristocratic government and the greater dignity given by this change to the senate it was natural that the alteration in the character of the Assembly should be attended by some change in the size arrangement or decoration of the chamber in which they sat. In the year then 1301 another saloon was begun on the Rio del Palazo under The Doge gradenigo and finished in 1309