CHAPTER III.
S.MARK'S.

II: THE INTERIOR Vandal guides--Emperor and Pope--The Bible in mosaic--The Creation of the world--Cain and Abel--Noah--The story of Joseph--The golden horses--A horseless city--A fiction gross and palpable--A populous church--The French pilgrims--Rain in Venice--S.

Mark's Day--The procession--New Testament mosaics--S.

Isidoro's chapel--The chapel of the Males--A coign of vantage--The Pala d'oro--Sansovino--S.

Mark's treasures--The Baptistery--The good Andrea Dandolo--The vision of Bishop Magnus--The parasites.
Let us now enter the atrium.