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  • Goldoni

    • January 25, 2020
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    Venice’s most successful and beloved playwright and poet of the eighteenth century was Carlo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) whose work is still alive and kicking, most recently in the guise of the Broadway and West End hit ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ which is based upon Goldoni’s ‘Servant of Two Masters’.  There has been some speculation
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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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  • Guardi

    • September 7, 2019
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    The artist Francesco Guardi (1712 to 1793) was one of Casanova’s Venetian contemporaries who recorded the world of what was at the time amongst the most diverse, exciting and sophisticated cities in the world.  Casanova’s brother himself was a celebrated painter and knew Guardi.  Anne Hanley writes a very accessible and informative article on his
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