Watch where you put your feet: set among the dark masegni (Venice’s stone paving blocks) of the campo (a square) is a slab of white stone, framed and cracked down the middle. Three lines in abbreviated Latin: ’LOC. COL. BAI. THE. MCCCX’ — locus columnae Baiamontis Tiepolo, the place of the column of Bajamonte Tiepolo.