At the westernmost edge of Cannaregio, on the campo (a Venetian square) known to Venetians as Sant’Agiopo, the church of San Giobbe is one of the great monuments of the Venetian Renaissance. It began as an oratory in 1378, beside the hospice for the poor established by Giovanni Contarini — authorised by the pope in 1390 and, after his death, run by his daughter Lucia, who welcomed the Observant friars there.