7. Latent in Darkness: John Ruskin’s Virtual Guide to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice

Emma Sdegno is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at Ca' Foscari University Venice. She has written several essays on Ruskin, with a major focus on rhetoric and style, and in the context of translation and travel studies. Her publications include two volumes of essays on Ruskin, Venice and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel, edited with R. Dickinson and with K. Hanley (2010), and the translation of J. Ruskin, Guida ai principali dipinti nell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia edited by P. Tucker (2014).