Another famous description of Venice occurs in a letter written by Pietro Aretino, a guest of Venice during the years 1527 to 1533, to Titian, quoted in E.Hutton, _Pietro Aretino, the Scourge of Princes_ (1922), pp.

136-7; compare also his description of the view from his window on another occasion, quoted ibid., pp.

131-3.
The earliest of all is the famous letter written by Cassiodorus to the Venetians in the sixth century, which is partly translated in Molmenti, op.cit., I, pp.

14-15.
9.

The account of the march of the gilds occupies cc.