)]
[446] [The Doge overstates his authority.
[446] [The Doge overstates his authority.
Byron
"
_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 337. ]
[ev]
/ _iron oracle_. \
_Where swings the sullen_ < >
\ _huge oracular bell_. /
[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[445] {427} "I Signori di Notte" held an important charge in the old
republic. [The surveillance of the "sestieri" was assigned to the
"Collegio dei Signori di notte al criminal. " Six in all, they were at
once police magistrates and superintendents of police. (See Cappelletti,
_Storia, etc. _, 1856, ii. 293.
)]
[446] [The Doge overstates his authority. He could not preside without
his Council "in the _Maggior Consiglio_, or in the Senate, or in the
College; but four ducal councillors had the power to preside without the
Doge. The Doge might not open despatches except in the presence of his
Council, but his Council might open despatches in the absence of the
Doge. "--_Venetian Studies_, by H. F. Brown, 1887, p. 189. ]
[ew] {428}_That thus you dare assume a brigand's power. _--[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[ex] ----_storm-clock. _--[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[447] [Byron may have had in his mind the "bell or clocke" (see _var.
_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 337. ]
[ev]
/ _iron oracle_. \
_Where swings the sullen_ < >
\ _huge oracular bell_. /
[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[445] {427} "I Signori di Notte" held an important charge in the old
republic. [The surveillance of the "sestieri" was assigned to the
"Collegio dei Signori di notte al criminal. " Six in all, they were at
once police magistrates and superintendents of police. (See Cappelletti,
_Storia, etc. _, 1856, ii. 293.
)]
[446] [The Doge overstates his authority. He could not preside without
his Council "in the _Maggior Consiglio_, or in the Senate, or in the
College; but four ducal councillors had the power to preside without the
Doge. The Doge might not open despatches except in the presence of his
Council, but his Council might open despatches in the absence of the
Doge. "--_Venetian Studies_, by H. F. Brown, 1887, p. 189. ]
[ew] {428}_That thus you dare assume a brigand's power. _--[Alternative
reading. MS. M. ]
[ex] ----_storm-clock. _--[Alternative reading. MS. M. ]
[447] [Byron may have had in his mind the "bell or clocke" (see _var.
