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MAP OF VENICE


Venice, c. 1885

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In Semele, the heroine fixed her residence in Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo in the sestiere of Cannaregio. It is marked with Z (above left of "Sacca" in "Sacca della Misericordia").

Mereweather lived in, and held services in, Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni-Corfù in the sestiere of Dorsoduro. The Contarini complex stands at the intersection of the Grand Canal and Rio di San Trovaso. It is marked with C.

The English church of St George was constituted in 1892 (after Mereweather had retired). The building in Campo San Vio had been a warehouse, and the conversion was not completed until 1897. It is marked with V (below "P." in "P. Da Mula").

For large-scale maps of these areas, see below.


Part of sestiere di Cannaregio

   

Part of sestiere di Dorsoduro (and sestiere di San Marco)
 



Venice, Bird’s-eye view
Drawing by M. Günther; wood-engraving published in L’Univers Illustré, 1866

This is, to borrow Frederick Rolfe’s words, a view "over the marvellous tiled roofs and chalice-like chimneys and verdant terraces and gardens and solemn byzantine bell-towers of the greater part of the city, across the blue lagoon to the snow-clad battlements of the Alps seventy miles away" (Desire, p. 212). 

In the foreground: La Giudecca and San Giorgio Maggiore.