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The national library of Venice, housed in Jacopo Sansovino's masterwork of Renaissance architecture on the Piazzetta San Marco facing the Doge's Palace. The building, constructed between 1537 and 1588, was described by Andrea Palladio as the most ornate and richest building since antiquity -- its two-storey arcade of Doric and Ionic orders, encrusted with sculptural decoration, establishing the classical architectural vocabulary that would define the Piazzetta for centuries. The library was fou...