Monday 25th (25th September, 1876)

In the morning to San Giovanni e Paolo, examined closely, then into the magnificent hospital adjoining it; strange and inexpressible emotion at the sight of the sick in those beautiful halls! — —

Then to the Gesuiti on account of the “St Lawrence”; thereafter Palma Vecchio’s “St Barbara”,^[1] and the pictures by Giorgione and Bellini in a little church. —

The sacristan in the Jesuit church represents the lower stage of the Döllinger type. These wanderings on foot with the children afford me the liveliest pleasure; only, in the streets, one sees almost nothing but poverty. In the afternoon, Santa Maria della Salute, and in the evening St Mark’s Square, where a Professor Hertel ^[2] from Berlin joins us.

^{[1] Palma il Vecchio (1480–1528), Renaissance painter. – 
[2] Prof. Hertel: likely Albert H. (b. 1843), Berlin, painter and professor at the Art Academy; undertook trips to Italy.}