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JOHN RUSKIN
"SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE," Our Lady of Health, or of Safety, would be / a more literal translation, yet not perhaps fully expressing the force / of the Italian word in this case. The church was built between 1630 / and 1680, in acknowledgment of the cessation of the plague: -- of course / to the Virgin, to whom the modern Italian has recourse in all his / principal distresses, and who receives his gratitude for all principal / deliverances.