Ca' Rezzonico

This guide to Ca' Rezzonico in Venice centers on the twelfth of December, eighteen eighty-nine, when a servant brings the poet Robert Browning news about his latest book while he is staying in his son's Grand Canal house. You'll hear about the quiet funeral held downstairs, the firemen who carried him to a waiting barge, and the long journey his coffin made afterward. It also traces the building's own unfinished history, from its architect's death to the family who finally raised its painted ballroom ceiling.