Not a carnival costume but rather a symbol of death, used to remember how much pain and suffering the disease brought to Venice. The shape of the curved beak on the white mask quickly brings to mind the beak of a vulture, a bird notoriously…
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The field is located in one of the liveliest spots in Venice, near Campo S.Margherita, in the center you can admire one of the largest wells in Venice, dating back to the early 16th century where there are two bas-reliefs depicting San Barnaba and…
Di Malamocco, already a tribune under the doge of Giovanni Galbaio and married to a French noblewoman, had pro-Franco tendencies and was therefore elected: a reaction of the power groups hostile to the previous doge Giovanni Galbaio who was pro-…
