Luca Scarlini, writer and playwright, leads a performative walk along the Zattere, evoking the characters featured in his book Nuova Guida Sentimentale di Venezia (Marsilio, 2024). Written after many years of research, the work places numerous important figures who passed through Venice and left their mark on its history within both space and time, identifying the places where they lived in a city whose history has always been defined as a stage for the enactment of complicated, baroque, and unpredictable life stories. Zattere Edition will take participants to the places marked by the presences of Eleonora Duse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Luigi Nono (grandfather, painter, and grandson, composer), Luigi Milesi, the singer Pistocchino, who in the early 1700s opened a maritime puppet theater, Niccolò Jommelli and Niccolò Porpora, and many, many others who lived in or left their traces on the Zattere, a part of the city that is renamed Vasca in the book.

The guided tour will conclude in a room of Scuola Piccola Zattere overlooking the Giudecca, with the ending of Scarlini’s story and the viewing of graphic works by Alvise Bittente, which illustrate the book.

When: 10 April at 6 pm
Meeting point: Scuola Piccola Zattere, Fondamenta Zattere al Ponte Longo, Dorsoduro 1401
Free participation
Alvise Bittente's drawings will be on display from Friday 11 April until Sunday 13 April, from 11 am to 7 pm.
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