1. Saverio Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana di Venezia (Rome: 1959), 19. Crouzet-Pavan, "Sopre le acque salse", 63.

2. Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana di Venezia, 70-71.

3. Goy, Venice: The City and its Architecture, 60, for San Marco settlement; Crouzet-Pavan, "Sopre le acque salse", 63-65.

4. Rizzo, I ponti di Venezia, 7-8.

5. Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana, 17-19. In the San Giovanni Crisostomo area, the network was composed of courtyards, while in the adjoining San Lio neighborhood, the pre-existing salizzada spun off an assortment of subsidiary streets.

6. Also known as Campo Do Pozzi.

7. Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana, tav. IX.

8. The word is cognate with the modern "selciata," meaning pavement, particularly that which was made from stone containing flint. Pero Tafur remarked on the paved state of the city in 1439: "The city is as clean for walking as in a gracious chamber, so well paved and bricked is it . . . There is therefore, no mud, and in summer no dust" (Pero Tafur, Travels and Adventures 1435-1439, translated by Malcolm Letts [London: 1926], 167).

9. Goy, Venice: The City and its Architecture, 24.

10. Crouzet-Pavan, "Sopre le acque salse", 105. This convent is now the location of the Archivio di Stato; it was the rio terra directly adjacent to the present north wing that was filled in.

11. Perocco, Civiltà di Venezia, 234. The addition of the Rio Nuovo in the nineteenth century did very little to make up for this loss of navigable water.

12. Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana, 70-71, and intervening map.

13. Muratori, Studi per una operante storia urbana, tav. 7.