text:  Watching their opportunity when the fight was at the fiercest one party mixed with the combatants exciting and urging them on and doing all in their power to increase the confusion; others set fire to the warehouses on the island of San Giorgio in order to draw the public attention in that direction; while the third and most numerous division favoured by the deepening twilight and the deserted state of that part of the city succeeded in fixing a rope ladder to the window of the Malipieri palace the chief of which noble house was as they had previously ascertained lying sick in bed in a side-chamber attended only by a few domestics