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The Singapore Pavilion, set up as part of the 59th edition of the Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, hosts the work of artist Shubigi Rao, a threefold multidisciplinary installation comprising a book, a video and a paper maze built around the theme of books destruction. They are part of a decade-long project under the title Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Starting in 2014, it has brought the artist to visit archives and libraries all around the world and to meet women and men who daily dedicate themselves to defending books and cultures on the margins. Here we present the works exhibited in Venice (2022) and the three books that have already been published (2016, 2018, 2022) out of the five scheduled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the importance of the city map of Capodistria (Koper) produced in 1619, at the end of the Uskok War, by engineer Giacomo Fino upon commission by the podestà and captain of the people, Bernardo Malipiero. The map, which represents the oldest document of this kind referring to Capodistria and is preserved at the State Archives of Venice, not only has great iconographic value, but also reveals the technical expertise and the vast knowledge of its author. In fact, besides elements of a purely technical nature, Fino included in the drawing all that was of vital importance for the Capodistria of that time: its urban structure with the districts, the distribution of town squares and streets, the monastic complexes, the ports and inner harbours, as well as the pomerium (the space of land immediately outside and inside the walls of a Roman city, considered sacred and kept free of buildings) - all of the elements that provide researchers with an overview of the role and importance of the city as the capital of Venetian Istria at the times of la Serenissima. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The College of Judges played a significant role in the political, institutional and legal world of Vicenza in the modern age. It was composed of legal experts belonging to aristocratic families, who found in this institution the right space to defend the identity, the prerogatives, the privileges and the statutes of the Respublica of Vicenza after the annexation to the Venetian State. Old and new families thus found in the College a suitable space to affirm their authority, enhance their status and manage the administrative and judicial affairs of both the city and the territory. In the past, interest has been given to the relations of power within the Vicenza ruling class, but also between the local power and the central power, to the attraction exercised by the courts of Venice among the elites formed in law, to families of recent nobility, to their path and to their alliances with the ancient aristocratic families within the College and the city councils. It is now necessary to consider an ancient aristocratic house that assumed a prestigious role in the Vicenza society and outside of the Venetian Republic, through the examination of the case of Marco Thiene who, in 1599, tried to be admitted to the College. The paper analyses the operation of the corporation, the recruitment criteria, such as the nobilitas (noble lineage), natalia (place of birth), aetas (age), studium (education), and mores (character) of the applicant Marco, as well as the relationship established among the cousins and uncles within the noble house of Thiene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]