Inside a 17th-Century Italian Palace, an Untouched Sanctuary

FOR SKYE McALPINE, who writes cookbooks and guides to entertaining, Venice is more than just a floating city of marble palazzos and Baroque churches — it’s a refuge. In 1990, when she was 6, her father, Lord Alistair McAlpine, the irreverent, high-living heir to a giant British construction company …