Bianco Slim, circa 20

On August 21, 1521 the abbess of San Zaccaria and the leaders of three other convents in Venice came before the Venetian Collegio to protest radical reforms being imposed on their communities. For several years the nuns had been employing both diplomacy and physical resistance to fight off attempts by the Patriarch to impose strict clausura on their convents. But neither sending requests for dispensation DISPENSATION. A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except in the legislature, to dispense with law, and then it is not so much a dispensation as a change of the law. to the pope nor hurling rocks at church officials who were sent to install iron grills and gates at San Zaccaria proved effective. [1] Instead, their spokesperson, Abbess Chiara Dona of the convent of Le Vergini, complained that "where all used to be noble, there are now installed nuns of another order, following a different rule and wearing a different habit base born women, Greeks and plebians to boot. What had stood for 760 years has now been taken from them, when they had spent 46,000 ducats on the church, the convent and the magnificent refectory." [2] A centuries old, symbiotic relationship symbiotic relationship (sim in implantology, that relationship assumed by an implant and the natural teeth to which it has been splinted. between the nuns and their numerous friends in high places doges, emperors, popes, Venetian senators, wealthy ecclesiastics ECCLESIASTICS, canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchical state of the church. They are regular and secular. Aso Man. Inst. B. 2, t. 5, c. 4, Sec. 1. , and devout laypersons had been summarily dismissed. [Br. Lit. , namely the great extent to which the church and the art within it was viewed as theirs. While the costly architecture, chancel chancel, primarily that part of the church close to the altar and used by the officiating clergy. In the early churches it was separated from the nave by a low parapet or open railing (cancellus), its name being thus derived. They initiated artistic projects and shaped the form and subject matter to meet their own needs. Legal jurisdiction over San Zaccaria of course rested with the bishop (later Patriarch) of Venice, who installed the abbess and held ultimate responsibility for the convent's spiritual and physical health, [3] but a great deal of the art and architecture at San Zaccaria is better understo od as having been the nuns', financed by personal and communal resources within the convent and closely shaped and orchestrated by the nuns themselves. As Chiara Dona had said, "What had stood for 760 years has now been taken from them, when they had spent 46,000 ducats on the church, the convent and the magnificent refectory [italics mine]." It was their vision, their church and their community that was challenged by zealous reformers.

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