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  • Casanova’s places

    • January 19, 2019
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    To help to get a better idea of where Casanova was born and brought up, Venice’s Casanova Museum has put together a collection of images and descriptions of places in Venice frequented by Casanova or linked to him in some way - here   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here.
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  • Strip the City – Venice

    • January 5, 2019
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    Just a 2-minute extract but a great little animation that shows what lies under the surface of Venice – here. There’s another interesting little titbit here. Just a 2-minute extract but a great little animation that shows what lies under the surface of Venice – here.   #venice #eighteenthcentury #history
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  • A journey into eighteenth-century Venice

    • October 31, 2018
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      ‘Ca’ Rezzonico’ (photo by Didier Descouens), a tremendous resource on Google Arts & Culture - here   ‘The Prologue’, and chapters 1 to 11 of ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ are now freely available here. 6 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.   #venice #journey #eighteenthcentury #history
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