Acoustic simulation of the church of San Francesco della Vigna

A computer simulation study has been carried out of the acoustics of the Church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice with a view to understanding whether or not the recommendations of the Renaissance scholar Francesco Zorzi would have improved the acoustics of the Church for the preaching of sermons. The flat coffered ceilings he recommended have been incorporated into the computer models but little improvement was found, even in the most extreme modifications studied.