When (re)visiting the Doges’ Palace in Venice yesterday, and its window into the working of the Venetian Republic, we came upon a temporary exhibition on the journey of Marco Polo, which was great (and little attended). It included a reproduction of Fra Mauro’s map, made in 1452 in Venice, for the Government of the Republic and built on many sources including Marco Polo’s memoirs, Le Devisement du monde written in 1298 in franco-italian. (The original sits next door in Museo Correr.) The level of detail is mesmerizing and we spent quite a while seeking known places (with the Italian spelling at the time). It covers a lot of places from South-East Asia, including Japan, Korea, and Sri Lanka, as well as Madagascar. The exhibition as a whole is certainly worth the (few euros and the) trip from Ca’ Foscari if attending ISBA 2024.
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Mappamondo di Fra Mauro [jatp]
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international celebration of blasphemy [jatp]
Posted in Books, pictures, Running, Travel with tags 2024 Venice Bienale, Bienale, blasphemy law, Dutch pavilion, ISBA 2024, jatp, Venezia, Venezia Gheto, Venice on July 12, 2024 by xi'an


As I was released all of a sudden from the Ospedale Civile di Venezia around noon, I managed to attend the last session of ISBA 2024 (after stopping by my airbnb for an emergency coffee next to the hospital and stopping for showering, changing clothes, and eating something more substantial than the contents of IV bags).