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‘How does Venice work?’
- February 26, 2022
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- Category: Venice and Paris
No CommentsA great 18-minute documentary on the evolution of Venice and how the city is maintained - here. 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely available here. #venice -
The Venice time machine
- October 2, 2021
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To anyone interested in history this is a truly mind-bending project that has to be seen to be believed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQGgYPRWfs https://www.ted.com/talks/frederic_kaplan_how_i_built_an_information_time_machine https://vtm.epfl.ch/page-109836-en.html 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely available here. #venice #history #eighteenthcentury #timemachine -
Escape from ‘Il Piombi’
- July 24, 2021
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On 26th July 1755 Giacomo Casanova exchanged the pleasures of the life of a Venetian libertine for that of an inmate in ‘Il Piombi’ (‘The Leads’). His cramped, backache-inducing cell was larchwood-lined, measured eight feet by ten feet and was five feet in height (Casanova was himself over six feet). The entrance was a lofty three
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