Whereas Childe Harold ii and ii sought the goal of their pilgrimage in the classical world of Greece, at the boundary of civilization and Nature, and Canto iii seeks its elusive goal in Nature beyond civilization, Canto iV concentrates on the high civilization of the Renaissance and of Rome. While obviously to some extent dictated by Byron's own whereabouts, the move also expresses a very significant shift in his world view. In Manfred (pp. 118) we have seen how the individual becomes responsible for the meaning of his or her own life. This is a secular view of meaning, seeing life as a construct of man's own mental activity. This mental activity is represented in and by civilization and culture. Life made meaningful has the form of an artwork - it is a product of civilization and culture. This is the view that dominates Canto iV. The canto opens with the famous image of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice: