Tag: Venice
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Episode 16 — The game of Pallone
Proper ball games for decent people? Not all ball games are equal; some are more equal than others.
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Episode 15 — The game of Calcio
The Venetians played a ball game (or maybe two different) which was called football, or kicking ball, but it was more rugby-ish, but also not really.
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Episode 14 — The War of the Castle of Love
How a fun game of knightly courtship turned into bloody war, and, last but not least, white chicken.
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The Plague Stone of Poveglia
The island of Poveglia in the Venetian lagoon is one of the most haunted in the world. This has been well-known since the early 2000s.
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Episode 13 — Nobles and Citizens
Noble, citizen, commoner, forestier, Jew, and what not. All people were absolutely not equal in the Republic of Venice.
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Jacopo Tiepolo
Doge Jacopo Tiepolo (1229–1249) left marks on Venice which we can still see today, eight centuries later.
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Episode 12 — Some institutions of the Republic of Venice
The story of Bianca Cappello tells us something about the institutions of the Republic of Venice, the agility of its government, and of early modern diplomacy.
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Daughter of the Republic
Bianca Cappello was created “daughter of the Republic” because Venice didn’t have princesses.
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Episode 11 — Bianca Cappello, part 2
Bianca Cappello had eloped to Florence with her lover, whom she soon after married. She then became the mistress of the prince regent of the Duchy of Florence. Her husband took a mistress of his own, but her family murdered him on Blanca’s doorstep. Does all that sound bad? Well, it’s getting worse.
