VENICE, as most everyone knows, is in mortal peril. Yet radical plans to save the most remarkable city in the world have been held up for a decade by ferocious argument about what exactly to do. Last year, finally, construction got under way on massive mobile barriers across the inlets to the Venetian lagoon to hold back storm surges from the open sea.
What has been the bane of reasoned debate has been the ignorance by politicians and public alike of the science of saving Venice.
It is to rectify this that Caroline Fletcher and Jane Da Mosto have written…
