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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 ...
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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.
In the foreground of the painting Guardi paints the Palazzo Balbi built by Alessandro Vittoria from 1582 as the residence of the Venetian patrician family of the Balbi. Guardi fills the Palazzo Balbi with people pouring onto balconies. This brings the viewer's attention to the regatta, the traditional Venetian boat
Two years later, Paolo Cappello, the Venetian ambassador in Rome also included the allegation in his report. [35] [Note 3] The malicious rumour was spread further by an infamous pamphlet that appeared in Italy in November 1501. The anonymous Letter to Silvio Savelli was a poisoned attack on the Borgia family which became the basis of the black ...
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.
[9] The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet, 1850. Destroyed. There is a general sense of mounting exhaustion and despair moving from left to right among the group; the last hauler seems oblivious to his surroundings and drifts from the line out towards the viewer. The exception is a fair-haired boy in the center of the group.