I due “gemelli” veneziani

In late seventeenth-century Venice, the caulker Francesco Santurini and the “marangone” Francesco Santurini were divided between the Arsenal and the theater. The first, after having distinguished himself as an engineer and stagehand of the major musical stages of the city, achieved European fame as architect-scenographer at the court of the Wittelsbachs in Munich. The second, a handyman trained in scenic art, founded the theater of Sant'Angelo which was to become, in the following century, the hall of reference for Antonio Vivaldi and Carlo Goldoni.

Based on first-hand documents, the book sheds light on an original aspect, hitherto underestimated by historiography: the unique relationship between the civilization of the sea and the civilization of the theater in the Serenissima Republic.