San Francesco della Vigna
San Francesco della Vigna brings together Franciscan reform and Venetian state power on a site with a story that begins long before the present church. Marco Ziani donated the original “vigna”—a vineyard—in 1253 so a monastery could rise there, and a small earlier chapel marked the spot where an angel was said to have spoken the words *Pax tibi Marce, evangelista meus* to the shipwrecked Saint Mark. A Gothic church by Marino da Pisa came first, but by the 16th century it needed repair. In 1534, Doge Andrea Gritti laid the foundation stone for the new structure, and the nave was roofed over by 1554. The church’s sober Renaissance design is attributed to Jacopo Sansovino, advised by the Franciscan friar Fra Francesco Zorzi, who measured key elements around the number three linked to the Trinity. …
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