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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.

Tiziano Vecellio, one of the greatest exponents of 16th century Europe whose strong point was always the continuous search for innovation and excellence, particularly in colour. He was born in Pieve di Cadore between 1480 and 1485.

According to some, Marco Polo was born on 15 September 1254 in Venice.

One of the greatest exponents of Rococo and the last protagonist of monumental decoration in Europe; he worked in Italy and abroad and it was thanks to his artistic contribution that 18th-century Venice was able to make its mark on the world once…

Solemn aristocratic residence of the great patron Vittorio Cini overlooking the Grand Canal from the side. The palace can be found by walking the distance between the Ponte dell'Accademia and the church of the Madonna della Salute.

He is considered the genius of the Renaissance: he was a painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, mathematician, anatomist, musician, scenographer and inventor. His fame is such that reproductions of the machines he invented can be found all over…

Antonio Vivaldi, the son of a violinist, became a priest and music teacher at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where he composed many of his works. He abandoned his ecclesiastical career to devote himself to music, becoming famous throughout…

His name is mainly linked to Law No. 75 of 20 February 1958 by which legalised prostitution was abolished in Italy. It is for this above all that we remember her, but Lina Merlin should also be remembered for many other fundamental interventions in…

Wife of the nobleman Lorenzo Bembo and friend of Louis XIV, the Sun King, Antonia Bembo would, however, go down in history above all as a singer, musician and composer. Her story is emblematic of what women have always been able to express in music…

Among the particularities that distinguished the doge from all the other sovereigns there was also his headdress: in fact, he did not wear the crown but the horn, a kind of cap of Byzantine origin that took different forms in the various eras.

Santorio, born in Capodistria in 1561, was a pioneer of iatromechanics, developing a quantitative approach to medicine. Known for inventing instruments such as the pulsilogium (for measuring the heartbeat) and the medical thermometer, his seminal…

History of the customs elections. From arengo to balotin