The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Boston chapter of Save Venice is open to all free of charge. The meeting will summarize our activities and restorations in the previous year, and present a slate of officers for 2024-25 to be voted upon by those present.

An optional ticketed reception ($50) will precede the business meeting and lecture.

A short lecture titled “Coming Home: The Repatriation of the Boston Mariegole” by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America, will conclude the meeting.

In Renaissance Venice, confraternities and workmen’s guilds played a fundamental role in religious, social and civic life. Each confraternity had its own book of policies and rules, called a mariegola. While researching two mariegole belonging to the Boston Public Library (one a codex and the other a mere fragment), manuscript scholar Lisa Fagin Davis discovered that they had been stolen from the Venetian Archivio di Stato during World War II. In this lecture, Dr. Davis will tell the story of her discoveries, research that led to the mariegole’s 2017 repatriation to Venice.