In Venice, graffiti are everywhere. Just at the Doge's Palace, researchers have found over 20,000, and in one-fifth of the city they have scrutinized, there are already 40,000. At the end of the research, there will presumably be no fewer than 200,000.
The walls speak, with words, symbols, and drawings. The undergrounds, the Piombi cells, the columns, the halls, doors, windows, cornices, sometimes even the roofs. Some were already well known, others are unpublished, and the research by Ca' Foscari University, with a very broad collaboration that includes Iuav, the Superintendency, Venetian museums, and numerous citizens, is revealing a sort of parallel world, with extraordinary results, as Superintendent Fabrizio Magani states. The first graffiti recorded dates back to around the 10th century, and the latest are from 2023. There is a millennium of history, stories, personal micro-stories or fragments, snippets of larger stories, sometimes collective passages recorded by just a few quick strokes, like a breath in the course of a long life.
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