St Alvise - or St Lodovico

The church, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 3, is dedicated to St. Louis of Toulouse, Franciscan and bishop of Toulouse; ‘Alvise’ and ‘Lodovico’ are both forms of ‘Louis’. See Notebook M2 p.10, where Ruskin said it was a building to be ‘looked after’, apparently in the now largely obsolete sense of 'sought out' rather than what is now the more common sense of ‘taken care of’. See Works, 11.361 - he clearly did not find it, though it is not far from the Madonna dell’ Orto church. The note is taken from Zanotto (1847) p.150.

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