” guillame postel and the inquisition in venice “

 

Photographs by Rinaldo Rasa,

june 2018

 

 

 

Wandering through the streets, calle of Venice, nowadays crowded by people came from all around the world, the image of the old city seems being very romantic. But Venice in the times before the discovery of America was the super power in the Mediterranean Sea. Hence the Republic of Venice used the usual means of political power including the support to Inquisition. In this small square, called Campiello De La Cason, I found the stone memorial of an event happened in 1555. Written on the stone: “Dedicated to Guillame Postel French humanist arrested in 1555 by the Inquisition”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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outside the experienceofthinking
wednesday june 13 2018