Particolare della Caserma Cornoldi — (Archivio Bazzmann/Venipedia)

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Detail of Caserma Cornoldi — (Archivio Bazzmann/Venipedia)

The church founded in the 15th century stood on the Riva degli Schiavoni, coming from Piazza San Marco in the direction of Castello, and was a copy of the niche of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Inside were works by Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Leandro Bassano and Sante Peranda.
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After the fall of the Republic in 1808, the entire complex was suppressedand today, the Cornoldi Barracks stand in its place.
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Elena Celsi, widow of Marco Vioni, with a testament dated January 2, 1409, donated her house, which stood next to the Sepulcher bridge, to give refuge to the poor and pilgrims going to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. In 1471 the two Venetian patricians Beatrice Venier and Polissena Premarin escaped from the island of Negroponte - as it was conquered by the Turks - and were hospitalized in 1475 in the Celsi hospice, where - together with other pilgrims - they embraced the third order of San Francesco ( otherwise known as pizzòcare in Venetian), creating the first nucleus of what will be known

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