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In such an environment there was but one career possible for the only
son of the house, who had been carefully trained, according to the
traditions that made culture for the young Venetian of those days; he
had even attended courses of those philosophical conferences which had
become the fashion since the sittings of the famous Council of Trent,
and which had been conducted in various convents by distinguished
professors from Padua and Bologna, and even by some of the learned men
of Rome; it was a species of amusement creditable for a young
nobleman--it would quicken the reasoning powers and give more subtlety
in debate, when government problems should later absorb his gifts.
But if, like other golden youth of his time, he was like a Greek in
possession of their liquid tongue and in a mastery of oratory that
filled the soul of Giustinian Giustiniani with satisfaction, the young
patrician himself had acquired this learning, less with a thought of one
day shining in the Senate than because it pleased him as a touch of
finish.


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