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How can oil consumption be reduced in 4 months and policies made more efficient in the long term? In the face of the emerging global energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the International Energy Agency (IEA) proposes 10 actions…

Marin Sanudo, also known as Marino Sanuto the Younger, was born in Venice on 22 May 1466. He came from the ancient patrician Candiani-Sanudo family, a leading figure in Venetian history from the very beginning and capable of producing five doges…

Not many cities can be defined as legendary, but Venice and its history successfully manage the feat, starting from its own birth. What, then, is the legend? It is a short story that is born when the popular imagination blends in harmonious play…

There is the Grand Canal portrayed from dozens of angles and panoramic points, first by the great 18th-century Venetian landscape painters such as Canaletto or Francesco Guardi, then by professional photographers or not, and finally from any…

Protect artworks from climate change. In an era in which the certainty of an increasingly critical climate has become a reality, where the risk of more frequent and more intense flooding forces all coastal realities to deal with adaptation and…

The loss of biodiversity has unfortunately become one of the great issues and one of the great challenges of the new century, which affects everyone because we too depend on it, our very survival depends on it. Pinna nobilis is the name of a large…

Although we experience this kind of partnership with Nature every day, almost all of the times and for almost all of the people living on this planet, the definition of ecosystem services is unknown. Yet, every time you build a house, put your…

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, known more simply as Felix Mendelssohn and sincere friend of the famous poet Wolfgang Goethe, is a German musician with a spontaneous melodic vein and a great skill in the art of orchestration that ranges in symphonic,…

A pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the spending and work frenzy so familiar to us all. The reality of lockdown is making ghost towns of the…

After a long period characterized by the domination of Byzantine art, in Venice from the fourteenth century onwards it was possible to witness a gradual approach to Western art, developing what would later become the peculiar Venetian painting. In…

Before the institution of the office of doge on the Venetian lagoons, civil and military power was exercised by the Byzantine magister militum to whom the tribunes, who administered the various islands, were accountable. At the end of the 7th…

In order to understand the importance and motivations of what Tommaseo read in the nineteenth-century Ateneo Veneto in what is now the room that bears his name, we need to take a few small steps back for a brief overview of the situation related to…