Foreword. The first thing to do in order to cope successfully with a city is to transform an ideal image made of streets, squares, houses, churches, buildings, in a mental image composed by parallel and perpendicular lines or concentric circles. Once this little step forward has been made, one (...)

For the Redentore, the Redeemer, Palladio created a church which is sitting on its steps while watching the city with sly and sleepy eyes. A church which is extremely near to the city but inevitably isolated by the Giudecca canal, crossed by enormous cruising boats that sometimes darken it (...)

On thursday 18th November 2004 I go to the Carlo Goldoni House in Venice, for a meeting named “The two enemy brothers. Fantasies of approach to the celebrations in the name of Carlo Gozzi and Carlo Goldoni”. I have to admit that what I espected to find was a quite rigid atmosphere, with (...)