{"id":1356,"date":"2026-06-01T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:13:13","slug":"%c2%a7-7-7-porton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/06\/01\/%c2%a7-7-7-porton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7\u00a07.7. Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">The enclosing of the Venice ghetto marks the appearance of a new form of <em>locus terribilis<\/em> different from the confinement scenarios known until then, such as the quarantine stations or lazzarettos (another Venetian invention) and the leper colonies that abounded near the Mediterranean ports. But more importantly, while the lazzaretto and the leprosarium were designed to contain biological agents, the ghetto was intended to contain an alleged agent of \u201cspiritual\u201d contamination (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/\u00a7-7-6-guetto-nuovo\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1344\" target=\"_self\">7.6<\/a>); that is, they were designed to contain alterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">On the other hand, unlike the somewhat voluntary ban of the Roma (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/\u00a7-7-2-cultura-y-habla\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1320\" target=\"_self\">7.2<\/a>), which finds its topographical expression in the encampment, the Jews of Venice were confined against their will in a geographical space perfectly suited to this purpose, an island. They could enter and leave the <em>Ghetto Nuovo<\/em> once a day and continued to interact with the rest of the city\u2019s population, but their options and consequently their sources of income had been severely limited. The Venice ghetto offers a closed but permeable place, where one is and isn\u2019t simultaneously. Like the door in Kafka\u2019s Before the Law (<a href=\"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2025\/12\/18\/\u00a7-0-9-el-umbral-y-la-ley\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"158\" target=\"_self\">0.9<\/a>), the gate of the Venice Ghetto opens to a place of exception; a non-place in which one only exists for oneself and one\u2019s own, but not for the rest of the population.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El cerramiento del Gueto de Venecia marca la aparici\u00f3n de una nueva forma de locus terribilis diferente a los escenarios de confinamiento conocidos hasta entonces, como las estaciones de cuarentena o lazzarettos (otra invenci\u00f3n veneciana) y las colonias de leprosos que abundaban cerca a los puertos del Mediterr\u00e1neo. Pero a\u00fan m\u00e1s importante, mientras el lazzaretto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[786109463],"tags":[786109490,786109492,786109491],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitulo-7","tag-gueto-de-venecia","tag-lazzareto","tag-venice-ghetto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-lS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}