Venetian Stories – newsletter

An Englishman handing a woman a letter — miniature by Rosalba Carriera

Venetian Stories is our newsletter, to keep in touch and share titbits from and about Venice and its history.

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Past Venetian Stories

The most recent issues are here below, and everything is in the archive.

  • Street-food in the 1700s

    Street-food in the 1700s

    Engravings of people working in the alleyways of Venice in the 1700s can tell us quite a bit about what people ate.

  • Why do the residents leave Venice?

    Why do the residents leave Venice?

    A three-day agricultural fair in Venice expels the locals from all the public spaces for three weeks.

  • An earl, a girl and a gondola

    An earl, a girl and a gondola

    On March 18, 1618, the Collegio received Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), the ambassador of the King of Great Britain to the Republic of Venice, who had a rather odd request.

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