The festival celebrates the end of the bubonic plague epidemic of 1630-1631 which caused the death of more than 50,000 inhabitants of Venice. The plague was said to have originated in neighboring Lombardy in Mantua and arrived in Venice in…
The Basilica Santa Maria della Salute is undergoing a change. This exquisite chiesa (church) was built after the plague of 1630 which killed nearly a third of the population in the lagoon. The Doge Nicolò Contarini and the Venetian Senate…
When I wrote this post in 2018, I had no idea how the “End of the Plague” could be so relevant. And yet today, we sincerely all wish for the end of our current plague – known as COVID19. And…