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As European cities such as Venice looked further afield, not only for material goods, but also for artistic inspiration and information on new technologies and

From the serene backwaters of Kerala to the hustle and glitz of great cities of the world, The Venice of the East is an expansive tale set against the historica

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new li

From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visu

Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was a celebrated Latin stylist and was widely admired for his wr