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Venetian boatman and his servant, burned by the Lords of Night. Marmagna was married to Braganza's sister. [36] [4] Giovanni Braganza Giovanni di Giovanni: 7 May 1365: 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite". [35] [40] Nanni di Firenze 27 July 1401 Likely burned in Venice. [41] Nani Silvestri 20 ...
[9] In the spring of 1687, the last major Ottoman forts in the Peloponnese, city of Patras and the forts at the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth, Rio and Antirio, fell. The Peloponnese was under complete Venetian control. The news of the great victory was greeted in Venice with great joy and celebration. Morosini was given the title of ...
A gondola ride. The gondola (English: / ˈ ɡ ɒ n d ə l ə /, Italian:; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon.
When Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade in 1095, he also sent envoys to the main Italian maritime republics for naval assistance to the crusading armies. [1] The Republic of Genoa was the first to respond, sending a small squadron east in 1097, which joined with the Byzantine navy in the Crusade's early operations, [2] apparently followed by smaller squadrons and individual ships. [3]
Andrea Gritti (17 April 1455 – 28 December 1538) was the Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538, following a distinguished diplomatic and military career. He started out as a successful merchant in Constantinople and transitioned into the position of Bailo, a diplomatic role.
The Boatman of Mortefontaine [26] c. 1865–1870 oil on canvas Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: 1796–1875 The Lake [27] 1861 oil on canvas Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: 1796–1875 The Pond [28] c. 1868–1870 oil on canvas Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: 1796–1875 Ville-d'Avray [29] c. 1860 oil on canvas Francis Cotes: 1726–1770 Francis Vernon ...
The following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns.. For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux.
The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided, together with citizens and foreigners. Patrizio was the noble title of the members of the aristocracy ruling the city of Venice and the Republic.