Then came the major monographic show of 1990 in Venice and Washington, whose catalogue boasted no fewer than seventy-seven entries. |
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The different types of water transportation means in Venice include waterbuses, water taxi, gondola and traghetto. |
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Was it some subtle dig at the disgraceful standards of literacy among the merchant classes of 16th-century Venice? |
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As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself. |
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Van Dyck, Canaletto's views of Venice, da Vinci sketches, Holbeins, Rubens and Rembrandts. |
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All that was left of the old mansion was the belvedere from which to view sunsets that Bonaparte often compared to those of Venice. |
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If there is one style of furniture that conjures up eighteenth-century Venice it is imitation lacquer. |
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I'd like to have a bash at playing Gustav von Aschenbach in Death In Venice, please. |
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After getting over his shock and confusion, Candide regains his optimism when he reaches Venice. |
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I've been considering my last question, and I wondered whether the church in the photograph is in Venice? |
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She demands to be shown settings of the novels she reads, such as Paris, London, and Venice. |
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It all looks more real than the real Venice, except for the lack of pigeon pooh. |
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The signory of Venice can, with all its force pay for 10,000 horsemen skilled in arms at home, and 5,000 abroad. |
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We also thank our respective universities for financial support during our 1997-98 sabbatical year in Venice, Verona, and Paris. |
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The biennial exhibition in Venice has an obligation to test the present, to challenge it, says the director of this year's massive event. |
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Also in Venice he met, and soon after married, the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, one of the finest singers of her time. |
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The Dialogo, one of the first pieces of art theory in Venice, takes the form of a discussion between two painters, a Tuscan and a Venetian. |
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Exports from the city of Arcadia included wool, wax, silk, and kermes, destined for Venice via Zakynthos. |
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Truman Capote said that Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. |
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The Merchant of Venice opened at the American Theater on May 24, 1903, and rave notices showered down. |
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This past fall, an exhibition independent of the biennale made the connective leap between historic Venice and contemporary architecture. |
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He quarrelled with Venice over salt pans in the Adriatic which the Republic annexed during his refuge in Italy. |
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The film begins with a sequence that intercuts between two rooms at the same luxury hotel in Venice, Italy. |
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If Roncalli had died as patriarch of Venice, he certainly would not be widely remembered today. |
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The son of a German artisan, he was probably born in Venice, and apprenticed to his adoptive father Giulio. |
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His name suggests he was born in Venice, but he was active mainly in Florence. |
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In the end, unlike in Naples, Milan, Turin, Venice, Genoa and other cities, the Resistance did not liberate the capital city. |
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Lotto, although born in Venice and active in the Marche, is included because of his work in Bergamo. |
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Another of the pictures from the mantelpiece shows her during that period, sailing on a gondola down the canals of Venice. |
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Eggs were thrown at the British consulate in Venice and police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators. |
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We spent a year or so doing one off gigs and residencies in a little fringe theater in Little Venice and we worked very, very hard. |
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In the early 1990s, the company's leaders envisioned an office in Venice, Calif., made up entirely of unassigned team space. |
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I spent a leisurely morning sipping coffee and watching the world go by on the sidewalk near Venice Beach. |
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At the Venice event, the company announced the sale of its 200 millionth printer. |
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We're sure it was warm in Venice, but we didn't notice any other starlets looking like they just finished a schvitz in the sauna. |
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I walked several miles south along the beach past Venice and just spent some time relaxing and breathing in the sea air. |
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Harry and the Contessa are called away to Venice, where an old friend has a new lead on an insurance scam. |
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As a side note, plans for a ship believed to be the schooner Enterprise were recently found in Venice. |
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Unlike the modern police state, to which it is often compared, Venice feared power and surrounded it with checks and deterrents. |
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Recognising this, he chose to arrive in midwinter when Venice is cold, wet and magnificently, beautifully bleak. |
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They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day. |
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Magnificently colorful and exquisitely detailed, his paintings capture the exhilarating beauty of Venice, Hawaii, San Francisco, and other much-loved locales. |
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After a stroll through the attractive gardens, members visited the baroque church with its splendid reredos from Venice and Italian wall paintings. |
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So many estate agents have boated me around Venice, for instance, that I reckon I now know the Serenissima's darkest alleys better than the little red dwarf in Don't Look Now. |
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She came to him, literally in a daydream, when he was bored, frustrated and uninspired, working at his father's coffee machine repair shop in Venice. |
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But he broke it to discuss the uncut version of Nymphomaniac at the Venice Film Festival. |
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Art in its informative mode, in a video installation by Ali Kazma, in the Turkish pavilion of this year's Venice biennale. |
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As I write, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi has sold out here at the festival, with more copies being sent from Delhi. |
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In 1953 he was made a cardinal and appointed patriarch of Venice. |
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Nissan reckons Murano, named after the island near Venice and the home of Murano glass, resembles an all-wheel drive below its belt-line and a sports sedan above. |
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This reminds me of the luscious radicchio di Treviso my parents would grill when I visited them in Venice. |
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In Venice that year, some canvas cost only a fourth of a scudo a meter. |
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The modern day lens on Venice, though, is the Bellini fuelled art world circus that is the Biennale. |
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Jacques and Marguerite agreed for once to take a real holiday and spent the whole of September in Venice, at the lido. |
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Their electrically charged fling bathed in the light of Venice forms the first part of the novel. |
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How many Venice Biennales have you been to, and which inspired the events in the first half of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi? |
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Pincus's volume deals with the earliest examples of any of the four books, ducal tombs produced in Venice from the mid-duecento to the later quattrocento. |
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Cafes, fun fairs, tat shops and arts and crafts litter the Venice beachfront, but it is the stallholders rather than the stalls themselves that provide the interest. |
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A one-legged torso wearing only a stiletto-heeled boot was found floating in a Venice lagoon. |
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The cube was placed outside for passersby to see as part of the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. |
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Journalist and novelist Geoff Dyer's latest work on Venice and Varanasi has won him acclaim. |
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For cities, topography is destiny and most especially this is true of Venice. |
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When she visited Venice, she shot 40 rolls of film, took the film home and used her memory, the pictures and sketches of particular scenes to create a painting. |
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In Renaissance Venice wives were free to bequeath their dowries to whom they willed, whereas in Florence they were required by law to leave them to their children or husband. |
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On Monday afternoon at the 2014 Venice Film Festival, von trier broke his silence. |
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The highlights of the tour will be visits to Florence, Rome and Venice. |
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But not before I have revisited Florence and visited Milano and Venice. |
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He returned home to Venice, and the cinematheque show went on for six months. |
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In that year she traveled to Venice and commissioned the Salviati company to design the elaborate interior and exterior mosaic decoration for the church. |
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Alberto Barbera, director of the Venice Film Festival, took the stage, flanked by a woman holding a trophy and a medal. |
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No one knows exactly why 29-year-old Iranian costume design student Mahtab Savoji turned up dead in the Venice lagoon last week. |
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After serving as apostolic delegate to Greece and Turkey from 1935 and as papal nuncio in liberated France from 1944, in 1953 he became a cardinal and Patriarch of Venice. |
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Venice agreed to the Balsic brothers having their own fleet in the Adriatic on condition they never use their ships against the interests of the Republic. |
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Several other biennales have been instituted on the Venice model, some of them general and others devoted to a specific category of art, such as naive painting or printmaking. |
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Once into the Mediterranean, the trade was largely monopolized by Italian powers, especially Venice and Genoa. |
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The sinking of Venice slowed after artesian wells were banned in the 1960s, but the city remains threatened by the acqua alta floods. |
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Mare Adriaticum generally corresponds to the Adriatic Sea's extent, spanning from the Gulf of Venice to the Strait of Otranto. |
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In this period, the Republic of Venice began to expand its territory and influence. |
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In the 13th century, Venice established itself as a leading maritime nation. |
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The Sarno projects suggests that on the Tyrrhenian shore there were little towns with palafittes, similar to ancient Venice. |
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The Crusaders opened trade routes which enabled the merchant republics of Genoa and Venice to become major economic powers. |
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The many streams, rivers and canals are crossed by some 2,500 bridges, more than London, Amsterdam and Venice put together. |
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Followers of the group often met to discuss in private salons and coffeehouses, notably in the cities of Milan, Rome and Venice. |
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The Republic of Venice was ruled from 697 to 1797 by a doge, who normally ruled for life, though a few were forced from office. |
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Evidence of mercantilistic practices appeared in early modern Venice, Genoa, and Pisa regarding control of the Mediterranean trade of bullion. |
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In 1453, with the capture of the city of Constantinople by the Ottomans, the trade of Venice and Genoa reduced to a great degree. |
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Peter returned from Venice with a current world map drafted by a Venetian cartographer. |
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Many priceless icons, relics, and other objects later turned up in Western Europe, a large number in Venice. |
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The Kingdom's decline began when it became embroiled in the dispute between the Italian Merchant Republics of Genoa and Venice. |
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Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. |
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Fra Mauro died the next year while he was making a copy of the map for the Seignory of Venice, and the copy was completed by Andrea Bianco. |
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The best known among the maritime republics are Venice, Genoa, Pisa, Ragusa, and Amalfi. |
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Nautical charts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries all belong to the schools of Genoa, Venice and Ancona. |
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Venice remained an ally of Byzantium in the fight against Arabs and Normans. |
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By the end of the 14th century, Venice had become one of the richest states in Europe. |
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In 1358, following a war with the Kingdom of Hungary, the Treaty of Zadar forced Venice to give up many of its possessions in Dalmatia. |
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Basing its prosperity on maritime trade, Ragusa became the major power of the southern Adriatic and came to rival the Republic of Venice. |
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Venice and Pisa entered the crusade almost simultaneously, and the two republics were soon in competition. |
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Pisa and Venice gave support to the Siege of Jerusalem by the army led by Godfrey of Bouillon. |
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Relationships between Pisa and Venice were not always characterized by rivalry and antagonism. |
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The relationship between Genoa and Venice was almost continuously competitive and hostile, both economically and militarily. |
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In 1218 Venice and Genoa reached an agreement to end the piracy and to safeguard each other. |
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In 2005, a retrospective of Freud's work was held at the Museo Correr in Venice scheduled to coincide with the Biennale. |
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Cosimo de' Medici and Alfonso V of Aragon entered the Italic League, together with Pope Nicholas, with Francesco Sforza of Milan and with Venice. |
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Genoa found it the growth of international finance, Venice in land expansion. |
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Meanwhile, Venice sided with Alfonso V of Aragon, who occupied the throne of Naples. |
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Commercial competition among Venice, Ancona and Ragusa was very strong because all of them bordered the Adriatic Sea. |
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In 1174 Venice united its forces with Frederick I Barbarossa's imperial army to try to overpower Ancona. |
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Venice and other Italian maritime republics played a key role in fostering capitalism. |
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A Byzantine fleet sailed to Venice in 807 and deposed the Doge, replacing him with a Byzantine governor. |
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Nevertheless, during the reign of the Participazio family, Venice grew into its modern form. |
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Venice sent a multinational mercenary army which soon regained control of the major cities. |
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Venice exploited the situation and quickly installed nobility to govern the area, for example, Count Filippo Stipanov in Zara. |
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Between 1414 and 1423, some 10,000 slaves, imported from Caffa, were sold in Venice. |
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The wars with Venice resumed in 1463 until a favorable peace treaty was signed in 1479 just after the troublesome siege of Shkodra. |
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In 1499, Venice allied itself with Louis XII of France against Milan, gaining Cremona. |
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Preferring peace to total war both against the Turks and by sea, Venice surrendered the bases of Lepanto, Durazzo, Modon, and Coron. |
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The offensive against the huge army enlisted by Venice was launched from France. |
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French and imperial troops were occupying Veneto, but Venice managed to extricate itself through diplomatic efforts. |
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Spain and the pope broke off their alliance with France, and Venice regained Brescia and Verona from France, also. |
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Venice was satisfied with reaffirming the principle that no citizen was superior to the normal processes of law. |
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By 1796, the Republic of Venice could no longer defend itself since its war fleet numbered only four galleys and seven galliots. |
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The army under Bonaparte crossed the frontiers of neutral Venice in pursuit of the enemy. |
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The Republic of Venice had gained control over much of the trade routes between Europe and Asia. |
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Those that survived the longest were in the more rugged regions, such as Florence or Venice, which was protected by its lagoon. |
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Even northern cities and states were also notable for their merchant republics, especially the Republic of Venice. |
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Geographically, and because of trade, Italian cities such as Venice became international trading and banking hubs and intellectual crossroads. |
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Venice and Genoa acquired vast naval empires in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, some of which threatened those of the growing Ottoman Empire. |
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The exceptions were Venice, Florence, Lucca, and a few others, which remained republics in the face of an increasingly monarchic Europe. |
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Marco Polo returned to Venice in 1295 with his fortune converted into gemstones. |
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Three and a half years after leaving Venice, when Marco was about 21 years old, the Polos were welcomed by Kublai into his palace. |
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De' Conti departed from Venice about 1419 and established himself in Damascus, Syria, where he studied Arabic. |
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Other Italian cities involved in silk production were Genoa, Venice and Florence. |
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The Republic of Venice had become a formidable power, and a key player in the Eastern spice trade. |
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Spain and Portugal were not happy to pay the high price that Venice demanded for spices. |
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In Venice, meanwhile, deliberations were taking place concerning the kind of assistance the Republic would lend to Constantinople. |
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Other potential claimants, such as the Republic of Venice and the Holy Roman Empire have disintegrated into history. |
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Founded in 1407 to consolidate the public debt which had been escalating due to the war with Venice for trading and financial dominance. |
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The maker of the map, Fra Mauro, was a Camaldolese monk from the island of Murano near Venice. |
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The map was made for the rulers of Venice and Portugal, two of the main seafaring nations of the time. |
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The map is usually on display in the museum Museo Correr in Venice in Italy. |
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The European part of the map, closest to Fra Mauro's home in Venice, is the most accurate. |
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Alvise was born at the Ca' da Mosto, a palace on the Grand Canal of Venice from which his name derives. |
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His father, caught in a bribery scandal, had been banished from Venice, and taken refuge in the Duchy of Modena. |
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In 2013 and 2015, the province was represented at the Venice Biennale as Official Collateral Projects. |
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On 31 March 1495 the Holy League was formed between the Pope, the emperor, Venice, Ludovico il Moro and Ferdinand of Spain. |
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In spite of the remonstrances of Spain and of the Sforza, he allied himself with France in January 1499 and was joined by Venice. |
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Genoa replaced Venice in the monopoly of commerce with the Black Sea territories. |
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They returned to Venice in 1295, 24 years later, with many riches and treasures. |
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New Venice was nothing close to hot or even warm, but outside was certainly airsome, and the atmosphere was as solid as a hall of mirrors. |
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The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. |
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Get your freak on at LA's most hipsterific beach paralleled by the Venice Boardwalk. |
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Luxuries from the Eastern world, brought home during the Crusades, increased the prosperity of Genoa and Venice. |
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Likewise, the position of Italian cities such as Venice as great trading centres made them intellectual crossroads. |
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Venice was Europe's gateway to trade with the East, and a producer of fine glass, while Florence was a capital of textiles. |
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In 1510, France, with a fragile alliance with the Holy Roman Empire in the League of Cambrai, was winning a war against Venice. |
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Bonaparte marched on Venice and forced its surrender, ending 1,100 years of independence. |
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The first patent law in 1447 in Venice protected the rights of inventors to their inventions. |
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During the period of the Republic of Venice, several Maltese families emigrated to Corfu. |
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She was also not seen as a model citizen because her husband was in Venice. |
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These were in particular the thalassocracies of Pisa, Amalfi, Genoa and Venice. |
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Reynolds travelled homeward overland via Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Paris. |
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In 1948, Moore won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. |
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Renato Castellani won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his 1954 film of Romeo and Juliet. |
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Yet another is to recite lines from The Merchant of Venice, thought to be a lucky play. |
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After leaving Florence, he travelled through Lucca, Bologna, and Ferrara before coming to Venice. |
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Cogni could not read or write, and she left her husband to move into Byron's Venice house. |
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One of the party's first tasks on arriving in Italy was to hand Alba over to Byron, who was living in Venice. |
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While the couple was honeymooning in Venice, Cross, in a fit of depression, jumped from the hotel balcony into the Grand Canal. |
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This was Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a subject he had been considering for some time. |
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The following year, he was honoured with a special award by the Venice Film Festival. |
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His next major role, and his last appearance in a Shakespeare play, was as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, his first appearance in the work. |
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Winslet's other 2011 film project, Roman Polanski's Carnage, premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. |
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In April 2016 he was named as the President of the Jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. |
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The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. |
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However, the destruction of the Arab fleet gave control of the Western Mediterranean to Genoa, Venice, and Pisa. |
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The commercial and cultural rivalry of Genoa and Venice was played out through the 13th century. |
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Not surprisingly, the Doges of Genoa have been less renowned than the doges of Venice. |
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After gathering in Venice, the Crusade was used by Doge Enrico Dandolo and Philip of Swabia to further their secular ambitions. |
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In the War of Saint Sabas, Venice drove the Genoese from Acre to Tyre where they continued to trade happily with Baibars' Egypt. |
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The Italian city states of Genoa and Venice flourished, creating profitable trading colonies in the eastern Mediterranean. |
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In the 14th century, raids by Moor pirates forced the Venetian Duke of Crete to ask Venice to keep its fleet on constant guard. |
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In 846, the Narentines broke through to Venice itself and raided its lagoon city of Caorle. |
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The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. |
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A further international service is provided by Venice Simplon Orient Express. |
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The legislation has been strongly criticised by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe as discriminatory. |
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After visiting Venice and Milan, he spent a few days in Paris observing Edmund Landolt, an expert on diseases of the eye. |
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By the end of April he was in Venice, living over a bakery near the San Vio bridge. |
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Pound had sent Yeats a copy of A Lume Spento the previous year, before he left for Venice, and Yeats had apparently found it charming. |
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When Dorothy went to England each summer to see Omar, Pound would spend the time with Olga, whose father had bought her a house in Venice. |
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Olga lost possession of her house in Venice and took a small house with Mary above Rapallo at Sant' Ambrogio. |
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In 1993 Hamilton represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion. |
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In 2005 they represented the UK at prestigious international art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. |
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In 1984, Hodgkin represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985 he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992 he was knighted. |
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In 1995, Hodgkin printed the Venetian Views series, which depict the same view of Venice at four different times of day. |
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He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. |
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He achieved widespread recognition when he represented Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale. |
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It was quite popular with the public and was later shown at the Venice Biennale in 2001, where Wallinger was Britain's representative. |
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The first lazaret was founded by Venice in 1403, on a small island adjoining the city. |
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In 1467, Genoa followed the example of Venice, and in 1476 the old leper hospital of Marseille was converted into a plague hospital. |
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A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi. |
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David Sassoon, London presented two works by Cicero that were printed at Venice in the fifteenth century. |
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One of the high points of his career was the Venice Biennale of 1962, where he was a prizewinner. |
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Venice formally annexed the Kingdom of Cyprus in 1489, following the abdication of Catherine. |
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In addition, Venice and Florence are also among the world's top 100 destinations. |
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Italian opera was believed to have been founded in the early 17th century, in Italian cities such as Mantua and Venice. |
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Other festivals include the carnivals in Venice, Viareggio, Satriano di Lucania, Mamoiada, and Ivrea, mostly known for its Battle of the Oranges. |
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From 1204, the Republic of Venice controlled Corfu and slowly all the Ionian islands fell under Venetian rule. |
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However, Boniface sold his claim to the Republic of Venice, whose forces made up the majority of the Crusade. |
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Venice's rival the Republic of Genoa immediately seized the island and it was not until 1212 that Venice secured Crete as a colony. |
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These developments have evoked comparisons with Venice, a city thought to be overwhelmed by the tourist influx. |
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It has been compared with Venice, due to its division into about 90 islands, which are linked by more than 1,200 bridges. |
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The presenters raced against each other with Eddie boarding the Orient Express from London to Venice. |
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A copy printed in 1472 by Nicolas Jenson of Venice is held in the library at Wells Cathedral. |
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Columbus traveled from Portugal to both Genoa and Venice, but he received encouragement from neither. |
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Other city states in northern Italy also expanded their territories and consolidated their power, primarily Milan and Venice. |
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By 1500, Venice, Milan, Naples, Paris and Constantinople each probably had more than 100,000 inhabitants. |
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The conflict was initially aimed at the Republic of Venice but eventually turned against France. |
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These were trips made annually to Europe, starting in 1924 with a trip to Venice. |
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In 2015, Oliver Hermanus film The Endless River became the first South African film selected for the Venice Film Festival. |
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Finally, Venice is increasingly vulnerable to flooding due to coastal area soil subsidence. |
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He has a place within the Latin Church similar to the Patriarchs of Venice and Lisbon. |
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Tuscany and Venice were also flourishing centres of diplomacy from the 14th century onwards. |
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The only truly independent entities on Italian soil were the allied Duchy of Savoy and the Republic of Venice. |
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Between 1414 and 1423, some 10,000 eastern European slaves were sold in Venice. |
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Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. |
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Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. |
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Roberta di Camerino is the only major Italian fashion brand to be based in Venice. |
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As a result of this conquest, considerable Byzantine plunder was brought back to Venice. |
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Venice subsequently carved out a sphere of influence in the Mediterranean known as the Duchy of the Archipelago, and captured Crete. |
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By the late 13th century, Venice was the most prosperous city in all of Europe. |
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The city was governed by the Great Council, which was made up of members of the noble families of Venice. |
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Venice was threatened with the interdict on a number of occasions, and twice suffered its imposition. |
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The newly invented German printing press spread rapidly throughout Europe in the 15th century, and Venice was quick to adopt it. |
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The war lasted thirty years and cost Venice much of its eastern Mediterranean possessions. |
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During the 18th century, Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in Europe, greatly influencing art, architecture and literature. |
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But the Republic lost its independence when Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Venice on 12 May 1797 during the War of the First Coalition. |
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From the 11th century until the 15th century, pilgrimages to the Holy Land were offered in Venice. |
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In June 2017, Italy was required to bail out two banks in Venice to prevent bankruptcies of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca. |
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Venice is an important tourist destination for its celebrated art and architecture. |
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Today, there are numerous attractions in Venice, such as St Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, the Grand Canal, and the Piazza San Marco. |
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Unlike most other places in Western Europe, and the world, Venice has become widely known for its element of elegant decay. |
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Venice is built on an archipelago of 118 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon, connected by 409 bridges. |
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Venice is unique in Europe, in having remained a sizable functioning city in the 21st century entirely without motorcars or trucks. |
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Venice is a city of small islands, enhanced during the Middle Ages by the dredging of soils to raise the marshy ground above the tides. |
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Mestre is the center and the most populated urban area of the mainland of Venice. |
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The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Venice, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 52 min. |
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Today, the Voga alla Veneta is not only the way the Gondolier row tourists around Venice but also the way Venetians row for pleasure and sport. |
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Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew. |
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Venice has a rich and diverse architectural style, the most prominent of which is the Gothic style. |
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The city of Venice in Italy has played an important role in the development of the music of Italy. |
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It can be argued that Venice produced the best and most refined rococo designs. |
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Venice was especially known for its beautiful girandole mirrors, which remained among, if not the, finest in Europe. |
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Perhaps the most known children's book set in Venice is The Thief Lord, written by the German author Cornelia Funke. |
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Venice also inspired the poetry of Ezra Pound, who wrote his first literary work in the city. |
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Venice at the time was a rich and prosperous Maritime Republic, which controlled a vast sea and trade empire. |
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Toward the end of that century, the center of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano, an offshore island in Venice. |
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When Constantinople was sacked in the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some fleeing artisans came to Venice. |
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This happened again when the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, supplying Venice with still more glassworkers. |
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The Carnival of Venice is held annually in the city, It lasts for around two weeks and ends on Shrove Tuesday. |
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The Venice Biennale is one of the most important events in the arts calendar. |
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A bridge of barges is built connecting Giudecca to the rest of Venice, and fireworks play an important role. |
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It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale. |
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The city successfully balanced its sovereignty between the interests of Venice and the Ottoman Empire for centuries. |
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The only truly independent entities on Italian soil were Savoy and the Republic of Venice. |
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The Venice Arsenal provides one of the first examples of a factory in the modern sense of the word. |
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The Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day and, at its height, employed 16,000 people. |
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He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. |
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The De expetendis et fugiendis rebus by Giorgio Valla was posthumously printed in 1501 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. |
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In November 1849, Effie and John Ruskin visited Venice, staying at the Hotel Danieli. |
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For Effie, Venice provided an opportunity to socialise, while Ruskin was engaged in solitary studies. |
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In 1948, Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, staying in Venice for several months. |
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A re-issue of the Examples of the Architecture of Venice. By John Ruskin... With the Text, and the 16 Plates as originally published. |
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Her work covers the walls of her airy and cluttered Venice studio. |
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What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice. |
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Then, putting the aggro behind him, the Welsh sultan takes a girl for a gondola ride and a game of tonsil tennis through Venice. |
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From tapas in Seville to cichetti in Venice, the cities of the Mediterranean have a long history of wine bars. |
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As for Death In Venice, with Dirk Bogarde mournfully eyeing young Bjorn Andresen in his sailor suit, I think that might be the end of it. |
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Today, several local administrations have joined the project including Bolzano, Ferrara, Padua, Pesaro, Rome, Trieste, Venice and Milan. |
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Little ships in glass were always popular in Venetian collections since Venice had a long-established maritime tradition. |
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She said four or five children probably will be selected for sliming at the Venice Beach event. |
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Indeed, they take place from Sorrento to Venice with disturbing frequency. |
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Venice is the classic lovers' getaway, and life doesn't get much smoochier than a gondola ride for two. |
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In order to circumstantiate the architecture of the Venice framework, it is necessary to explain some of the major preconditions immanent to it. |
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It makes it a lot easier because we're all into the same things,'' added Kareem Ghanie, an 18-year-old Venice computer science major. |
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Made from several grapes including Corvina, Rondinella and sometimes Molinarais, it is at the core of red wine consumption in Verona and Venice. |
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In Shakespeare there are trials, in King Lear and The merchant of Venice. |
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Bellotto is renowned for his idealised views of Venice, often produced alongside his uncle, that other great vedute painter, Canaletto. |
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The genre of vedute culminated in Venice in the 18th century with Canaletto. |
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is a novel of two distinct parts. |
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In 1816, Byron visited San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice, where he acquainted himself with Armenian culture with the help of the abbots belonging to the Mechitarist Order. |
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Over the following months, he and Wolfe together studied the architecture of Vicenza, Venice, Verona and Florence, where the Palazzo Strozzi greatly impressed him. |
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Otway's play had the floating city of Venice stand in for the river town of London, and it had the dark senatorial plotters of the play stand in for the Earl of Shaftesbury. |
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In Venice, Milton was exposed to a model of Republicanism, later important in his political writings, but he soon found another model when he travelled to Geneva. |
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Her best friend Ruby will be trying not to look as Stacey's gran attempts to cop off with gondoliers in Venice, and Bradley's got tickets for the London Eye. |
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At the 1952 Venice Biennale, eight new British sculptors produced their Geometry of Fear works as a direct contrast to the ideals behind Moore's idea of Endurance, Continuity. |
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In August 1850 Ruskin and Effie were at Wenlock Abbey where Ruskin sketched some of the arcading in the Norman Chapter House, which was used in The Stones of Venice. |
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He carried this technique north and influenced the painters of Venice. |
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With the help of local tribunals, such as in Venice, the two institutions investigated a woman's religious behaviors when she was accused of witchcraft. |
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In May 1870 and June 1872 he admired Carpaccio's St Ursula in Venice, a vision of which, associated with Rose La Touche would haunt him, described in the pages of Fors. |
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