I have failed to find any life of any S.Isidoro that relates the story.

Note the little bronze lions on each side of the altar--two more for that census of Venetian lions which I somewhere suggest might be made.

The little chapel on the left of S.Isidoro's is known as the Cappella dei Mascoli, or males, for hither come the young wives of Venice to pray that they may bring forth little gondoliers.

That at any rate is one story; another says that it was the chapel of a confraternity of men to which no woman might belong.

In the mosaic high up on the left is a most adorably gay little church, and on the altar are a pretty baby and angels.