Re: Off Beat Question? Venice, anyone?

["Kitsune" <kitsune () sbcglobal net>]

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=doge+venice+police+anonymous+opening

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE0DB1439E333A25753C1A9629C946096D6CF


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From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:30 PM
Subject: [funsec] Off Beat Question? Venice, anyone?


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> This is completely off topic, but it's something that has really
> been bugging me, and I can't find the answer (or perhaps I'm not
> asking Google -- or other places -- the right question).
>
> If you've never been to Venice, you can hit 'delete' now.
>
> I'm looking for a name, and additional references, to these
> "objects" that I recall seeing and being told about when I was
> in Venice a few years ago.
>
> The one I saw was on a wall, either adjacent to the Doge's Palace
> (Palazzo Ducale) or on a wall at the palace structure(s) itself,
> or on a wall adjacent to St. Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco).
>
> It looked like either a Lion's face, with an open mouth, or perhaps
> a Sun (Sol) -likeness with an open mouth, in which citizen's could
> surreptitiously insert letters to the authorities (Maggior
> Consiglio? All of the building surrounding Piazza San Marco
> were government officals, including 'law enforcement' who ran
> the prison -- also close by) informing on the 'criminal'
> activities -- or treasonous acts or religious descrepancies --
> of other citizens or their neighbors.
>
> In the days in which religious persecution reigned (e.g. The
> Spanish Inquisition), this was very common.
>
> So what were this "secrets portals" called?
>
> Anyone? This has actually been keeping me awake at night. :-)
>
> I would really appreciate a pointer or two...
>
> Thanks,
>
> - - ferg
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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