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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…

Missiva, our historical newsletter, has suffered a temporary setback since February, due to a technical problem beyond our control, which we are working to resolve quickly. What happened: Venipedia is built with several tools, chosen from industry…

February 2022 is an important month for the Italian Constitution, because it finally introduces the protection and protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems in a clear, black and white way. A vital civic and constitutional value. It…

Your excellencies, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, as you spend the next two weeks, debating, negotiating, persuading and compromising, as you surely must, it’s easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single number, the…

Some twenty years ago, in a magazine that dealt with New Age and spiritual topics, I read an article about the Age of Aquarius - into which we have been moving for some years now, coming out of the Age of Pisces. The part that most caught my…

Before man arrived on planet Earth, conditions on the planet changed over time, sometimes violently, other times more gradually. All these changes have produced favourable conditions for life as we know it today to develop. As a general definition,…

The removal of carbon in the atmosphere is essential to combat climate change and the current ongoing climate crisis. But we are late. Bazzmann + Venipedia, through its Virtuosa initiative, already actively contributes to the removal of excess…

Do not ask the Venetians where such a square or such a street is located because you would hear the answer that in Venice there is only one square and it is in the San Marco district, that is Piazza San Marco, and only a handful, at most, of streets…

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…

All over the world, in cultural archives and in private collections, there are precious witnesses of what can be placed at the dawn of modern publishing: manuscripts. In Italy, some of these can also be consulted online through the Digitalized…

One thing that immediately catches the eye of those who go to Venice for the first time and wander around the lagoon is the way in which the local population conducts non-motor boats. It is the so-called Venetian rowing. In fact, Venetian rowing is…