People

"The first time I met Venice," he wrote, "I was a teenager mourning the death of my mother, added to a series of family adversities. It was raining, everything was cloudy and grey: the city seemed to weep along with my secret weeping. The appearance…

No lie, no fascist repression could make people forget that Silvio Trentin had fought with all his strength for the cause of the liberation of humanity. We quote a passage from the biography of Silvio Trentin written by Frank Rosengarten in 1980.

Brilliant Venetian engineer, creator of the impressive Semmering railway in Austria - one of his most famous works and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 - and some of the most important road, hydraulic and railway sections in Northern Italy and…

Anticonventional Venetian director whose daring productions enchant and delight the audience in the auditorium. Celebrated by theatres halfway around the world, with his fresh and at times provocative gaze, he reinterprets plays in prose and opera…

Borges is a metaphysical and labyrinthine universe, infinite and indefinite. Thin boundaries between reality and dream, where illusion becomes literature, through a narrative that is never linear, never banal, but circular, oblique, collateral,…

Probably the most important Italian theatre actress of the late 19th and early 20th century, and an undisputed symbol of modern theatre. For this she was nicknamed Divina. She is known to many as the passionate and at the same time devastating love…

Discovered only recently, she is appreciated not only for her unquestionable talent for poetry and literature but above all for her reflections on the condition of women in the 16th century, which led her to produce the work The Merit of Women…

His life, work and thinking have always been characterised by a duality that traces his existence in Argentina and France and his belief in a bipolarity between the everyday and the unreal world. It was precisely this existential duality that…

One of the greatest representatives of the fine 18th-century Venetian organ school of which Pietro Nacchini was the founder. His contribution to the city of Venice was extremely high: there are about 48 organs, most of which are still in use.

In the preface to the collection of poems entitled 'Veneziane' by Giuseppe Canali, Trilussa - an Italian poet, writer and journalist - writes: 'If the verses that you collect in this volume are all those that you read to me the other evening and of…

He was the most important art dealer of the 17th century: of him, Cesare Gigli writes in the introduction to his 'Della Pittura Trionfante': "this honoured face
from the chisel to the living has been sculpted
but the excellence of his noble heart
…

The leader of the 16th-century Venetian school, Giorgione is recognisable by his geographical provenance 'from Castelfranco' or by his nickname 'Zorzon', which, as Vasari recalls, is to be found in the 'facts of the person and the greatness of the…