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Casanova’s Europe: Venice
- October 17, 2020
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No CommentsInteresting lecture (1h 18m) by Frederick Ilchman on eighteenth-century Venice, Casanova and art here. ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #venice #art #eighteenthcentury -
Poverty
- October 10, 2020
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In the modern day, it is difficult to appreciate the extent to which grinding poverty in previous centuries had been the norm for the large majority of mankind. In the eighteenth century, most of the population in Europe existed in a state of basic subsistence, semi-starvation and debt, the slightest misfortune sufficient to push -
The coffeehouse
- October 3, 2020
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An entertaining 16-minute TED talk by Matthew Green on coffeehouses of the 17th and 18th centuries – here. A British Library article by Matthew White, ‘Newspapers, gossip and coffee-house culture’, can also be found here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of
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