Sfogi in Saor

Imagine a summer night in Venice when fireworks spill out of an indigo sky as though they were fiery strands of gems tumbling from a great, overturned coffer. Imagine the lagoon beneath teeming with boats—gondolas, barges, rowboats, powerboats, ferries, yachts—glowing with thousands of trembling colored lanterns. It is the most glorious night of the year, the night of the Redeemer, il Redentore, when all Venice turns out to recall its deliverance from the plague, as it has always don