"Venice Secrets, Crime and Justice" exhibition from March 31 at Palazzo Zaguri

• WEBSITE: www.venicesecrets.net

• LOCATION: Palazzo Zaguri, S.Marco 2668 (Campo San Maurizio)

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Palazzo Zaguri presents “Venice Secrets, Crime and Justice” Exhibition – from March 31, 2018 in Venice. A ground-breaking exhibition, illustrating the darker aspects of Venetian history through the theme of justice, with unique items and suggestive reconstructions, debunking myths and false myths about one of the most long-lived, and avant-garde under various aspects, historical realities within the European panorama. The exhibition circuit is structured in four sections: inquests and torture, prisons and prisoners, capital executions, the Inquisition between myths and legends. The thirty-six showcasing rooms will offer the opportunity of viewing hundreds of instruments for torture and death, dozens of paintings, period garments and ancient books, all displayed to the world for the very first time and emerging from libraries, museums and private collections, from Italy and abroad. Experts have reconstructed inquisition cells, and an anatomical theatre with plastinated corpses, recalling how executed persons were used for scientific purposes. International scholars and famous writers have worked in order to narrate and bring back to life great tragedies, like the ones regarding the Doge Marin Falier or the Count of Carmagnola, or libertines like Lorenzo Da Ponte and Giacomo Casanova, who both used to frequent Ca’ Zaguri. Not only the terrifying spectacles of death sentences and the hellish punishments inflicted, but also the many folk spin-offs about the poor little baker or the monster Biagio Luganegher. In addition to such stories, the secrets of the magistrate benches which made up the structure of the State are also revealed. Ample space is dedicated to the Holy Office through several examples: from the clash between the Republic of Venice and the Holy See, to the figures of the Servite Friar Paolo Sarpi, the philosopher Giordano Bruno and the courtesan Veronica Franco. Open every day, from Monday to Sunday, from 10am to 9pm. Info: www.venicesecrets.net