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  • Venice, Island Treasure

    • November 16, 2019
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      An absorbing fifty-minute documentary on Venice, past and present, for those of you who, like me, can never get enough of its enchantment - 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 #history
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  • Backstory

    • November 9, 2019
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    • Category: Behind the Scenes
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      Most people have an overwhelming fascination for the lives of others, what we have in common with them, how we are different, their trajectories, how they start, how they finish, the balance of their strengths and weakness, the way they suffer, succeed or fail.  Every other person is in some way a version of
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  • Posterity, calumny, Rousseau and Diderot

    • August 3, 2019
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    Regularly during the radical Enlightenment of mid-eighteenth-century France was to be heard the uproar of bitter recriminations as Rousseau fell out with friends and allies.  One of his closest had been Denis Diderot who, in fact, Rousseau blamed for having led him to becoming a philosopher in the first place. In a fascinating article (approx.
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