Excerpt from The Carnival of Venice, and Other Poems

A pleasing episode of that world-renowned holiday, the sounds of which Paganini combined in the wonderful compo sitiou for the violin which bears its name. An Italian noble and his wife are walking along an arcade of the piazza of St. Mark the cicisbeo of the lady, who is thrumming a guitar. Whispers in her ear from behind his mask other figures occupy the middle ground, while from the upper windows of the palazzo, across the open court, lords and ladies look down upon the revelry and the merry-makers of the carnival.

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