"Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit
In judgment at a thousand miles away,
With the short vision of a single span?"
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
Canto XIX, lines 79–81 (tr. Longfellow).
S.Michele in Isola, Venice.
dedicated to Saint Michael,
the holder of the scales on
Judgement Day.
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