Did Thomas Jefferson ever Visit Venice and the Veneto?
A Trip That Never Happened Among some supporters of the old Venetian Republic, there is a myth, one of many …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Giuseppe Mazzini’s Houses in London
When you look up, the eye loses itself in a reddish, bell-shaped vault, which always gives me, I don’t know …
The Sack of Italy, or How Canova Made a Fool of Napoleon
Anonymous, “Seizing the Italian Relics”, Musée de l’Armée, Paris In 1797, on the anniversary of the 9th Thermidor 1794, the …
Letters from the exile 