Upper part of the frontispiece of the 1581 edition of the "Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare".
**Scuola della Passione — School of the Passion — Venetia Descritta (1581)**
The _Scuola della Passione_ was a lay religious charity, established in the early 1500s when it quickly gathered a large membership.
Besides the Easter procession, it […]
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