He belonged to one of the 12 so-called Apostolic families.

Credited with high lineage and Roman descent, he enjoyed excellent international relations: already a ducal councillor and ambassador (1050) to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (1039-1056), he married Theodora, sister of the Basileus Michael VII,

In the Crucifixion (now lost) of 1436, painted for Verona Cathedral, the painter signed himself a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano, who had stayed in Venice between 1408 and 1414.

His teachers were Eustachio Manfredi and Francesco Maria Zanotti but also Iacopo Bartolomeo Beccari, who channelled him towards the study of experimental physics and medicine.

The word caligo comes from the Latin caligo (-gĭnis) and means caligina, fog, mist, not seeing clearly, obscuring.

In this overview of Piazza San Marco you can see various gentlemen with the classic headdress of the time and the tabarro, a winter cloak, in Venice also used in other seasons.

High water in Venice and the lagoon is often annoying, uncomfortable and sometimes harmful — and the current climate change is accentuating the phenomenon in frequency and intensity.

In Venice, high water is always high tide, but high tide is not always high water.

Water is a very precious commodity, drinking water even more so.

The so-called fede di sanità (health pass) allowed the bearer to pass freely despite quarantines and severe travel restrictions due to the plague (today the same purpose is assumed by similar instruments and also in digital form: vaccinat

The so-called fede di sanità (health pass) allowed the bearer to pass freely despite quarantines and severe travel restrictions due to the plague (today the same purpose is taken over by similar instruments and also in digital form: vacci

During the terrible plagues of past eras, a system of prevention by 'purging' was adopted, i.e.