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Giogio Vasari on Sanmichele and the Sant'Andrea fortress - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · 10d

Giogio Vasari on Sanmichele and the Sant'Andrea fortress.

Extract of Vasari, "Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori" (1568), related to Michele Sanmicheli and the Fortress of Sant'Andrea. #Venezia #Venice

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Extract of Vasari, "Le vite de' più eelLe vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori", related to Sanmicheli and the Fortress of Sant'Andrea.

Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum — Lessico Veneto - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 25

A lexicographer's lament.

"There, fleeing Austrian bullets, hunger, anarchy and the many other calamities that afflicted the illustrious and unfortunate Venice, in a few hours, by cholera, on the twentyfirst day of August of the year 1849," …

"Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.

Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — plate 16 — Veduta delle due Chiese di S. Nicolò e S. Giuseppe di Castello - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · 28d

An image of a Venice which no longer exists.

Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — Veduta delle due Chiese di S. Nicolò e S. Giuseppe di Castello, published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.

#Venezia #Venice #VeniceLost #SkyStorians

"Veduta delle due Chiese di S. Nicolò e S. Giuseppe di Castello" from the "Gran Teatro di Venezia", published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.

Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum — Lessico Veneto - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 25

… "passed away serenely, because supremely pious, the woman of who writes. O reader, it will not hurt you to say a prayer for the peace of her soul."

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 25

A lexicographer's lament.

"There, fleeing Austrian bullets, hunger, anarchy and the many other calamities that afflicted the illustrious and unfortunate Venice, in a few hours, by cholera, on the twentyfirst day of August of the year 1849," …

"Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.

Nine-Eleven in Venice - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 11

I've written about the event here.

Nine-Eleven in Venice is the anniversary of a tornado which in 1970 killed 36 persons, mostly in a sunken water bus at Sant'Elena

Episode 17 — Venice and the plague - part 1 - Venetian Stories podcast

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 11

Today Venice remembered the victims of the tornado of September 11th, 1970.

#Venice #Remembrance

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 10

Venetian Stories podcast
Episode 17 — Venice and the plague – part 1

In 1348 — or maybe late in 1347 — a ship arrived in Venice with an unexpected — and unwanted — cargo: the plague.

This episode is mostly about bacteria and miasma.

#skystorians #venice #plague

The plague arrived in Venice in 1348, but what is the plague, and how did our ancestors understand it?

Santa Lucia - Venetian Stories podcast

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 4

I live in one of these houses.

Detail of some houses and a few churches from the map in the previous post.

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 4

Is it reasonable to feel happy because you've found a map of your city from 1580 you didn't know about before?

#skystorians #venice #maps

Engraved map of Venice on yellowed paper,with a large legend at the bottom, occupying maybe 40% of the height.

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 3

Santa Lucia

Why is the railroad station in Venice called Santa Lucia, who was she, and where's her church?

#Venezia #Venice #LostVenice #skystorians

Why is the railroad station in Venice called Santa Lucia, who was she, and where's her church?

Il Gran Teatro di Venezia — plate 48 — Veduta della Fondamenta della Croce di Venetia - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Sep 2

“Veduta della Fondamenta della Croce di Venetia” from the “Gran Teatro di Venezia”, published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.

A bit of casual violence in Rococo Venice.

#Venice #Rococo #Traffic #RoadRage

"Veduta della Fondamenta della Croce di Venetia" from the "Gran Teatro di Venezia", published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.

The game of Pallone - History Walks in Venice

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 29

The game of Pallone

The giuoco del pallone — the game of the big ball — also called palla da pugno (fist ball) or palla al bracciale (ball with arm guard) was the quintessential ball game.

The game of Pallone is a distant ancestor of modern tennis, with emphasis on 'distant'

#skystorians #venice

The "Game of Pallone" was the quintessential ball game in the Republic of Venice and elsewhere, but it wasn't really like any modern game.

Episode 16 — The game of Pallone - Venetian Stories podcast

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 28

Venetian Stories podcast

Episode 16 — The game of Pallone

In this episode, we’ll talk about proper ball games: noble games for decent people.

Calcio, as discussed in the previous episode, wasn’t a real ball game.

So what was a real and noble game for decent people?

#skystorians #podcast #venice

Proper ball games for decent people? Not all ball games are equal; some are more equal than others.

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 24

I'll wait for the pig under the oak.

Apparently, an old Venetian way of saying: what goes around, comes around.

#skystorians #venice #PigsUnderOaks

Road rage - Venetian Stories podcast

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

Rococo Road Rage

As I was browsing a book of old prints, I stumbled over something unexpected. An inconspicuous print from the early 1700s was full of traffic chaos and violence.

#skystorians #venice #roadrage

A monochrome print from the 1700s on yellowed paper. The composition has three levels. In the back, a Venetian quayside with some multi-storey buildings on the left, a bridge slightly right of centre, and parts of a church on the right. In mid-level is a canal with many rowed boats of different types, in apparent chaos. In the foreground, in the shade, are several figures in silhouette, some running, and several more boats along the canal side.

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

A few days ago, a taxi hit a gondola near the Rialto Bridge because nothing ever changes.

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Traffic has always been bad in Grand Canal in front of the Santa Lucia railroad station, and as an old engraving shows, that is nothing new.

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

Some finely dressed persons are running towards "their" accident, while completely ignoring the larger incident, which, however, involves lower class people.

The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The enlarged area is in the lower left, showing four men in silhouette, running towards the right. The two men in the front seem more affluent based on their dress. The first is running fast, holding on to his hat, while pointing towards the gondola incident. Another well-dressed man follows his indication. Two servants, one carrying a stick, are right behind them.

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

As if this isn't sufficient, there's another accident going on too, in the lower right corner. Here one rower is in the water, and his mate has pushed over a guy in the boat, which has just rammed them.

The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The focused area is in the lower right, where two gondolas have crashed, one ramming the other. There's a man in the water swimming away, probably from the boat hit, while the other rower from that same boat is using his oar like a spear to knock over a man who's in the other boat

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

Two men from the boats have been knocked overboard. One is trying to climb back up, while the other is swimming towards the shore.

The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The detail is of two men in the water. One is trying to climb back into the boat he fell from, which another is swimming towards the shore for safety. He's looking backwards, at the two men fighting with their oars

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

Three workboats have crashed in the middle of the image,and two rowers, in a fit of rage, have their oars high in the air to hit the other.

The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The area is of three workboats in the middle of the canal. They have crashed into each other, there's a man in the water, and two men from different boats have their oars raised high in the air, as they're about to strike each other

History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

The print is "Veduta della Fondamenta della Croce dì Venetia" from the well-known "Il Grande Teatro di Venezia" published by Domenico Lovisa around 1715–1720.

It depicts an area which is now where the Santa Lucia railroad station is. It looks like this today.

A modern photo of the same scene as in the 1700s print, where little has changed, but the church buildings in the background are gone, and replaced by a garden behind a brick wall.

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 20

Rococo Road Rage

As I was browsing a book of old prints, I stumbled over something unexpected. An inconspicuous print from the early 1700s was full of traffic chaos and violence.

#skystorians #venice #roadrage

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History Walks Venice @historywalksvenice.com · Aug 14

A podcast of Venetian Stories — episodes from the History of Venice from the time of Augustus until today. It is not a chronological narrative, but a series of freestanding episodes from the two millennia of Venetian history.

Stories from the history of Venice, as a podcast and as a newsletter, brought to you by René Seindal of History Walks Venice.