Gondola Extravagance

The public morality must always be safeguarded by the Venetian government and so from time to time laws are created to make sure our people stay true to the Christian ideals on which our city is built. The Gondola is a simple enough vessel and thousands of them ferry people around on the canals of Venice every day. As so often the many rich and powerful families of our Republic have found the temptation to flaunt their wealth hard to resist. Gondolas come in all kinds of sizes and colors and some are so over-decorated that they are an affront to any true Christian mind.\nIt is now being debated if a law should forbid the decoration of these Gondolas as to some they are a symbol of all that is wrong in our great city.