Author: Dario Zanverdiani
Subject: History of Venetian architecture and art; Venetian trade and corporations; Rialto, Venice (Venezia).
First part of the extended edition of previous text of author about Riva del Vin in Rialto at Venice and the Bucintoro "dai tralci di vite". Noteworthy new contents regarding Venetian guilds (silk, wool, canvas, fustian, tanners, vendors and wine bearers, knife grinders, stationers, barbers), late Renaissance buildings (building of Office of the Silkmore; Ruzzini palace at San Giovanni Crisostomo), stone coats of arms (in particular of Gradenigo and “Provisores serici”), ancient inns (taverns of Sturione and Gambaro), traghetti, patrician properties in its relations with commercial structures, merchants operating in seventeenth century (as Jewish and converted), art history (works of the eighteenth-century painter Angelo Trevisan; analysis of topographic content of famous painting by Carpaccio).
