Crossword-Solution: PALAZZOS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 28

III More than ever I dreamed, I have found it: my happy good fortune! Cupid sagaciously led past those palazzos so fine.

Mark's in Venice, with superb mosaics of gold and semi-precious stones; the carved lions' heads, _bocca del leone_, for receiving secret missives; the delicate tracery above the doors and windows of the palazzos, and all those other architectural features so characteristic of the City of the Doges.

The ghastly effect produced by the purple lights, the utter blackness of the canals, the deathly silence, broken only by the sound of water lapping the walls of the empty palazzos, combine to give the city a peculiarly weird and sepulchral appearance.

There are some eighty principal ones, of which the Palazzos Veneziano, Farnese, Doria, Barberini, Colonna, and the Rospigliosi (containing Guido's famous "Aurora") are the most important.

Uncle Sam should always feel at home in his own house, and I contend that he couldn't really feel that way in an ex-harem, or in one of those cold-storage Roman Palazzos where the Borgias used to dispense cyanide of potassium _frappé_ to their friends and neighbors.