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One of the many records of the Serenissima Republic was to transform wine into a luxury item by marketing it first throughout the Mediterranean basin and then in Romania, across the Black Sea, but also in Southampton in the North Sea, along the…

Legend has it that ... on 25 March 421, what will later be a city unique in the world, a millenary empire, a cradle of excellence and a symbol recognized all over the world: Venice was founded. The charm of this legend is represented by the mystery…

The Procurators of St. Mark's were an authoritative magistracy of the Serenissima, second only to the figure of the Doge, whose election for life they had in common.The year of institution of the office is to be attributed to the year 812 and on the…

The recent emergence of the novel coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a spotlight on the risks that animals can pose to humans as the source of new viruses. The virus in question, known as SARS-CoV-2, has been linked to a “wet market…

De notte ora ai teatri, ora al Redutto Son quel che col feral serve de lume; E pur che i paga mi so andar per tutto. "El còdega", from "Le Arti che vanno per via nella Città di Venezia" by Gaetano Zompini (1753). The còdega, as narrated by Zompini…

It reads in the early modern treaties on capital punishment that the main purpose of the conforterias in Italian cities was to make sure that the condemned accepted his own death and accepted it in a state of grace. Only through this way would the…

The Republic of Venice, given the enormous potential of the immense market that could have generated the sale of wine, immediately decided to focus on the quality of the same, which had to be and remain of the highest level. To achieve this there…

A new analysis of international coastlines indicates that, according to their model, climate change-related sea-level rise may affect annual territorial flooding - and daily high tide episodes - much faster than previous assessments had suggested.…

Luca, what is the difference between weather and climate? How do you know what the weather will be like in 5-10-20 years if you already have trouble knowing what the weather will be like next week? The answer is simple because they are two different…

Hi Fionn, first of all congratulations for the research. How do you feel as a main winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair edition? I felt in disbelief but also excited. This award has made me feel excited because I think that there is an outlook for…

A centre for the production of masks since the Middle Age, and home to private collections of this kind of item (evidently prematurely freed from their theatrical functions to become carnivalesque and assume a singular aesthetic value), masks in…