“Carampane” from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
List of all churches Venice — consecrated, deconsecrated and demolished.
The Sestiere San Polo is in central Venice, around the upper bend and central part of the Grand Canal.
Fires were a very real preoccupation of the Venetians, and there have been many fires in Venice over the centuries