San Marco
Proper noun
Meaning
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San Marco
The central, and most tourist-oriented, of the six sestieri of Venice; includes Saint Mark's Square.
Examples
Cardinalate Pope Paul VI created Luciani the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in the consistory on 5 March 1973.
He dramatized his moral campaign with special masses for the youth, processions, bonfires of the vanities and religious theater in San Marco.
From 1498 is his famous portrait of Savonarola, now in the Museo Nazionale di San Marco in Florence.
Eventually, however, after a long siege, Pisa was occupied by Florentines in 1406: in fact florentines corrupted the Capitano del Popolo ("People's Chieftain") Giovanni Gambacorta that opened by night the city gate of San Marco.
He built the Palazzo San Marco (now the Palazzo Venezia ) and lived there even as pope, amassing a great collection of art and antiquities.
He broached these apocalyptic themes in San Gimignano where he went as Lenten preacher in 1485 and again in 1486, but a year later, when he left San Marco for a new assignment, he had said nothing of his "San Giorgio revelations" in Florence.