Venetian Stories
https://venetianstories.com/
https://venetianstories.com/author/rene/
https://historyofvenice.com
A particular Venetian Easter tradition, and a forgotten Venetian charity, and some special relics.
The ancient Venetians had a rather ambiguous relationship with prostitution. It was both rejected and accepted. Four prints show this ambiguity.
The paintings of Gabriel Bella are well-known and often used, but very little is known about Gabriel Bella.
During carnival, on Fat Thursday, the Venetians executed a bull in front of the Doge’s Palace. It was beheaded by sword.
When the English gentleman John Evelyn left Venice in 1646, after almost a year in Venice and Padua, he had more stuff than when he had arrived.
The statue on the façade of the San Zulian church is not of a saint. It is of a physician who got rich selling remedies for syphilis.
The Battle of Lepanto was a great victory for Venice and its allies, but even if Venice won a battle, it still lost the war.
In Venice, even the most dull and featureless square is full of stories, if one knows where to look
Why is the railroad station in Venice called Santa Lucia, who was she, and where’s her church?
Traffic has always been bad in Grand Canal in front of the Santa Lucia railroad station, and as an old engraving shows, that is nothing new.
