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A thousand-year-old empire
- February 20, 2021
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No CommentsAn extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the six articles on the site which are available free to all. “Casanova was born at a time when the thousand-year-old, sea-borne empire that was Venice was no longer the political, military and commercial powerhouse that it had once been. By the end -
The beginning
- February 6, 2021
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Here’s an extract from Dave’s article ‘The Early Life of Casanova’, one of the 27 articles on the site which are freely available to all. “Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice, 2nd April, 1725. Just over a year earlier, his then 16-year-old mother, Zanetta Farusi, had eloped with, and married, a penniless actor-dancer called Gaetan-Joseph-Jacques Casanova -
The horses of Saint Mark’s
- December 19, 2020
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An accessible and informative eight-minute account from the Khan Academy of the plundering of the horses of Saint Mark’s from Venice – 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. #horses #venice #plunder
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