The Church of San Geminiano in Venice, Demolished by Napoleon in 1807
Antonio Visentini (1688-1782), Piazza San Marco toward San Geminiano, etching (1742) after Canaletto There are many churches that we can …
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Calle della Piscina 1673: Lord Byron, Marianna Segati, the “English Cheat” and the “Italian Cuckold” (1816-1817)
Venice, November 17th, 1816. To Mr. Moore: I have fallen in love, which, next to falling into the canal (which …
List of Works of Art Looted by Napoleon in the Republic of Venice (1797)
This painting is the famous The Wedding Feast at Cana (1563), by Paolo Veronese. Before being plundered by Napoleon’s troops …
James Bond in Venice: Ian Fleming’s Risico
Ian Fleming I bathe every afternoon at the Lido. But not at the fashionable plage. I bathe at the Bagni …
Ugo Foscolo in Regency London (1816-1827): Holland House, His Houses and the Cenotaph
Ugo Foscolo Cenotaph in Chiswick, London Here for the first time in my life I have learnt that my name …
Letters from the Exile was nominated in the ITALY Magazine Blogger Awards 2014
I just wanted to let my readers know that Letters from the Exile has been nominated in Italy Magazine’s Blogger …
The Three Bogeymen and the Black Legend of Venice: Beckford, Casanova, Twain and Dickens
Cell in the Pozzi, next to the Doge’s Palace De chi me fido guardami iddio De chi no me fido …
Frankenstein’s Laboratory in Italy: Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri, Galvanism and the Shelleys
Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri (Source: Wikipedia) Italy has great names still – Canova, Monti, Ugo Foscolo, Pindemonti, Visconti, Morelli, Cicognara, Albrizzi, …
Venice After the Fall: Casanova (1797), Da Ponte (1798), Hobhouse and Byron (1816)
October 1797, Il faut danseur. The people of Italy depicted in their regional masks, forced to dance around the Tree …
Romantic Byron: His Last Visit to Arquà Petrarca with Teresa Guiccioli (1819)
Countess Teresa Guiccioli After his visits to Arquà in 1813 and 1818 (see my previous post here), Lord Byron returned …
Letters from the exile 