Arte, storia, poesia e paleografia nelle lapidi dell'antico cimitero ebraico del Lido di Venezia

The work of my PhD is a catalogue of the all 1234 tombstones (fragments included) that still make up the “Ancient” cemetery of the Lido. For every gravestone, I create a detailed form which in most cases includes the transcription and translation of the epitaph and also outlines the architectural style of the tomb, the kind of stone used and an assessment of his condition, a description of the emblem which sometimes was engraved on the stone, a paleographic analysis of the writing, a note about the poetic and grammatical features of the text and a historical commentary, which mainly concerns the news reported in the community dead registers.