Articles
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Ink and Rat Poison
Is there a connection between writing ink and rat poison, as some images from the 1700s seem to indicate?
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Buildings, Palaces and Churches
Buildings Bridges Monuments Details
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Early Venice
Venice wasn’t founded. Venice happened, and events and reasons behind it happening are rather complex. This series researches the origins of Venice.
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Daily life and customs
Venice was a buzzing city, full of people and activity, and of course, the Venetian had their particular ways of doing things in their daily lives.
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Curiosities
Venice is full of curiosities, often scattered around the city in the most unlikely of places.
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Feasts, celebrations and ceremonial
The Republic of Venice had its feasts and celebrations like any other state, except most of these traditions are now long gone and very often entirely forgotten.
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Le Arti che vanno per via (1753) — Gaetano Zompini
The “Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia”, by Gaetano Zompini, is a fantastic source for how people appeared on the streets of Venice in the mid-1700s.
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Slaves in Venice
Slavery was not a large part of Venetian culture or Venetian history, but there were slaves in Venice.
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Comments on the “Catalogo di tutte le principal et più honorate Cortigiane di Venetia”
Notes and comments on the “Catalogo di tutte le principal et più honorate Cortigiane di Venetia”
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Modern Venice
Venice fell under French, Austrian and Italian domination after the end of the Republic of Venice.