Engravings of people working in the alleyways of Venice in the 1700s can tell us quite a bit about what people ate.
A three-day agricultural fair in Venice expels the locals from all the public spaces for three weeks.
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.
Domenico Pizzamano never expected to end up in prison. He was not a traitor. He had done his duty.
In the late Venetian republic, when the doge died, they held the funeral for a statue.
The constitution of the Republic of Venice never really existed. The Venetian nobility just made it up as they went.
Quarantine was the main method of prevention of the black plague in Venice, and the lazzaretti served that purpose.
“Fornicators of Nuns” were criminals in ancient Venice, and harshly punished, but that didn’t stop nuns from having lovers.
The “Venice Access Fee” introduced by the municipal administration will do absolutely nothing to resolve the real issues of the city.