place
San Marco
The basilica of Saint Mark; the Ghetto children play with the same colored glass-flux of which its grave mosaics were made.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §59 this interior
The basilica of San Marco, its golden mosaics (smalti) so multiplying the light that the things they show 'almost passed away.'
- Early Poems §145 St. Mark's Square
The Piazza San Marco, the ceremonial heart of Venice before the Basilica and the Doge's Palace.
- Stories of God §81 San Marco
The basilica of Saint Mark, whose grave mosaics are of the colored glass the Ghetto children play with.