If you’re like me, you don’t need much of an excuse to immerse yourself in pictures of Venice. Here’s a simple but very effective idea. Why not collect together paintings to re-create a sense of what the city looked like at one particular period? ‘How Venice Looked to Victorian Travelers c1890’ does precisely that – here. (And why not listen to piano solo ‘A Day in Venice’ by Fivos Valachis while you’re scrolling?)
‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here.
Long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.
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