{"id":1324,"date":"2011-03-14T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2011-04-02T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T22:58:48","slug":"campiello-barbaro-the-beautifulest-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2011\/03\/14\/campiello-barbaro-the-beautifulest-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Campiello Barbaro, the beautifulest square"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Venice, across the Grand Canal from St. Mark’s and the doges’ palace, in the Dorsodoro neighborhood near the Salute church, there’s a little square, the Campiello Barbaro<\/a>, that I’ve taken a shine to.<\/div>\n

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To the west, it’s bounded by a small canal, the\u00a0Rio delle Torreselle, “of the towers,” named after a palazzo with towers<\/a>, no longer extant, belonging to the Venier family. \u00a0A sweeping staircase descends from the bridge over the canal, grand on a miniature scale. \u00a0Foliage from a hidden garden overflows an old brick wall.<\/div>\n

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To the north of the square there is a famous palazzo, the Ca’Dario<\/a>, with its rosette facade and ‘carpaccio’ chimneys, built — or restored, we’re not sure — by\u00a0Giovanni Dario<\/a> in the late fifteenth century. \u00a0Giovanni’s daughter,\u00a0Marieta or Marta, married\u00a0her neighbor Vincenzo Barbaro, who lived in the Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff next door. <\/p>\n

The square is named for this famous Barbaro family<\/a>, although their main residence was by the Accademica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On the other side of Ca’Dario, Wake Forest University runs a residental study abroad program from Casa Artom<\/a> on the site of the former Venier palazzo, “of the towers.”<\/div>\n

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There are shops below an apartment building on the south side, and more apartments to the east. \u00a0There are a few forlorn saplings in the green at the center of the square. \u00a0The whole thing is, perhaps, a tennis court or two in size.<\/div>\n
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[2 April 2011 update: there’s a scene in Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You<\/em> set in the Campiello Barbaro, about 32 minutes into the film, when he ‘accidentally’ runs into the Julia Roberts character.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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