By Serena Perfetto

Technology represents today a powerful tool for challenging the political nature of the chronicles of the past, the one we learn as truth at school. The history of "old Europe" is something that it is usually taken for granted. Unless we have the opportunity to explore it from a different perspective. This is what Diego Calaon is doing while studying the history of Venice. Awarded with the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship by the EU in 2014 for the project "Voices of Venice", Diego had the opportunity to move out the Old Continent and chose one of the best academic centers in the world for archaeological theory, the Stanford University in Palo Alto.

Using fresh archaeological evidence from Torcello and past excavations through a database and digital maps, Diego is trying to demonstrate the reasons why Venice suffers from its legends and how little people know about the history of one of the most studied cities in the world.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano