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With the consent of the people, he chose first his brother Pietro as co-ruler and on the latter's death his other brother, Orso junior. Giovanni organised an expedition against Marino, Count of Comacchio, 'putting to fire and sword the surrounding…

He was 70 years old (he was born on 26 October 1409) and was the brother of Doge Pietro (1474-1476). During his dogate he signed a peace that sanctioned the end of the war against the Turks (1479), but forced the Republic to give up Negroponte,…

He was 69 years old and belonged to the branch of the family that had the baroque palace on the Grand Canal, Ca' Pesaro, built by Longhena between 1679 and 1718. In the doge's past there was some stain. At the time of the Castro war (1641) he had…

He was born in 1240 and was therefore 72 years old. In his youth he had been podestà in Chioggia and Ferrara, but had also distinguished himself as an admiral against the Genoese in the capture of Caffa (1296). A few years before becoming doge he…

An elongated island, actually composed of several islands connected by bridges, which in the past earned it the name of Spinale or Spinalonga. Giudecca has also been defined by other names such as Vigano, intended as a village / village in the…

Son of Doge Angelo from whom he had been sent on a mission to Constantinople to strengthen the Republic's ties with Basileus Leo V the Armenian, at whose court he received the title of ipato. Back in Rivoalto, Justinian brought with him, as a…

Commedia dell'arte was initially characterised by the absence of a script with characters endowed with personality, organised instead by mostly stereotypical plots and professional actors playing fixed characters, usually masks. Goldoni instead…

In 1789 a competition was launched to establish the project for the new La Fenice theater. The architect Gianantonio Selva, who began directing the work from 1790, until its conclusion in 1792, was awarded the job (amid controversy from partisan…

Born in 1898 in New York, Peggy was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, a mining entrepreneur, and Florette Seligman, a descendant of a prominent banking family. Growing up in New York, Peggy travelled in Europe with her first husband Laurence Vail…

The Lido of Venice began to be a destination for seaside tourism starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, a time of important urbanization interventions that transformed the town inhabited by a few hundred people into a summer resort…

The Tintoretto house is a tall and narrow building dating back to the fifteenth century in Gothic style with a splendid three-light window on the first floor. On its facade there is a small marble statue representing Hercules with a club and a…

The library, starting from 2000, was located on the 1st floor of the building known as the former Tiro a Volo; the space available was about 380 square meters. divided into 3 rooms with 72 seats for reading. The heritage is around 24,000 volumes and…