Today the banks at the foot of the Rialto Bridge are called Riva del Vin and Riva del Ferro, not far away is the Riva del Carbon, but what few people know is that once the names of the two banks were reversed and that the Riva del Ferro took on a different name, as Marco Antonio Sabellico tells us at the end of the fifteenth century in his book Del sito di Vinegia, describing Rialto:
Ma vassi di qui al luogo onde ora si partimmo et prima che si pervenga al ponte, vi è un portico, ove ferro et altre mercanzie di passo in passo si vendono. Tutta la ripa dà essa maniera di
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