His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

Although the copy has been lost, the Andrea Bianco original is preserved at the Biblioteca Marciana ( Venice ).

Aveiro is sometimes called " The Portuguese Venice ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of Venice, as the city faced similar problems when it tried to conquer the water.

Ferry services to Italian cities of Venice, Ancona, Pescara and Bari from around a dozen of Croatian sea ports, most notably Rovinj, Rijeka, Zadar, Split, Korčula and Dubrovnik, is available on a daily or weekly basis.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

* Castello, Venice is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice

* 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

* European festivals The biggest European festival is the Cannes film festival in France along with Berlin and Venice.

Nan Madol offshore of Temwen Island near Pohnpei, consists of a series of small artificial islands linked by a network of canals, and is often called the Venice of the Pacific.

The first line connects Milan to Salerno via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin to Venice via Milan, and is under construction in parts.

El Greco, who moved to Venice after establishing his reputation in Crete, is the most famous artist of the school, who continued to use many Byzantine conventions in his works.

* 1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.

The earliest known explicit Renaissance depiction is one of the many woodcut illustrations to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a book published in Venice in 1499.

In central and Venice dialects of Vèneto, intervocalic has turned into a semivocalic, so that the written word ła bała is pronounced.

Yet another is to recite lines from The Merchant of Venice, thought to be a lucky play.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

* 1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

* 421 – Venice is founded at twelve o ' clock noon, according to legend.

His work may also be found in museums in Italy and around the world, such as the Civica Galleria d ' Arte Moderna in Milan, the Tate Collection, The Angel of the City at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D. C. Marini's work is authenticated by the experts at the Marino Marini Foundation in Pistoia, Italy.

The Quality of Mercy is a phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

It is most commonly used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art, stemming for the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895 ( the phrase has since been used for multiple events, as the " Biennale de Paris ", or even as Portmanteau with the Berlin Biennale Berlinale ).

The phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

In The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare uses the phrase " Jewish gaberdine " to describe the garment worn by Shylock, and the term gaberdine has been subsequently used to refer to the overgown or mantle worn by Jews in the medieval era.

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale ( 1997, 1980, 1976 ), the Whitney Biennial ( 1995, 1977 ), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany ( 1972 ), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women ’ s Caucus for Art of the College Art Association ( 2005 ); the Governor ’ s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1998 ); the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1998 ); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association ( 1998 ); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale ( 1997 ); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government ( 1992 ); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany ( 1991 ); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( 1989 ).

Johnson attended Sherborne School, Dorset, and while still an undergraduate reading Greats at Exeter College, Oxford, he took part in the Marco Polo Expedition with Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, travelling on a motorcycle from Oxford to Venice and on to India and Afghanistan.

Bourchier and Vanbrugh appeared in command performances before King Edward VII in November 1902 in Dr Johnson at Sandringham with Henry Irving's company, and in November 1905 in The Merchant of Venice at Windsor.

* Aviators who worked with or for DeLay's Venice Airfield included: Al Wilson, Frank Clarke, Ormer Locklear, Dick Grace, Otto Timm, Art Goebel ( winner of Dole Air Race ), " Fronty " Nichols, Frank Tomick, Ivan Unger, Al Johnson, Wallace Timm, Howard Patterson, Glen Boyd, Mark Campbell, Otto " Swede " Myerhoffer, Bob Lloyd, E. L. Remelin, Waldo Waterman, Fred Hoyt, Gil Budwig, Sam Greenwald, and many more.

Pandolfo IV, his son ( 1500 ), lost Rimini to Cesare Borgia, after whose overthrow it fell to Venice ( 1503 – 1509 ), but it was later retaken by pope Julius II and incorporated into the Papal States.

The town of Longboat Key was incorporated in 1955 and is part of the Bradenton – Sarasota – Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.

In the west, the peaks of the Julian Alps high above Lake Bohinj marked the border with the historic Friulian region, initially held by the Patriarchs of Aquileia, but gradually conquered by the Republic of Venice and incorporated into the Domini di Terraferma by 1433.

Initially, it was part of Tolmin ( Tolmein ) County, which was conquered by the Republic of Venice in 1420 and incorporated into the Domini di Terraferma.

In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

The Treaty of Campoformio ( 17 October 1797 ), by which Napoleon handed Venice over to the Austrians, gave a rude shock to Foscolo, but did not quite destroy his hopes.

Between the first and second editions, Vasari visited Venice and while the second edition gave more attention to Venetian art ( finally including Titian ) it did so without achieving a neutral point of view.

In 1267, Mengu-Timur issued a diploma – jarliq – to exempt Rus ' clergy from any taxation and gave to the Genoese and Venice exclusive rights to hold Caffa and Azov.

Loretta Young gave birth to Judith Young on November 6, 1935, in a house she and her mother owned in Venice, California.

On 21 March 1800 as Rome was in the hands of the French, Pius VII was crowned in exile, in Venice, with a papier-mâché tiara, for which ladies of Venice gave up their jewels.

The last ended with a decisive victory for Venice, which gave them almost a century to enjoy Mediterranean trade domination before other European countries started exploring to the south and west.

( Translation of the paper I gave at the Venice Hegel conference in May 2001.

In 1875, Terry gave an acclaimed performance as Portia in The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, produced by the Bancrofts.

Though some his earliest biographers, Mattei and Villarosa, give 1748 as the year when Jommelli gave up his employment in Venice, his last compositions for the Incurabili are from 1746.

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

However he only kept this post into 1564, at which time he returned to Parma ; he gave as his reason for departing Venice the disorder in the chapel and an insufficient salary.

He was active in improving monastic discipline and in the repression of Monothelitism and gave Venice the right to choose the doge itself.

While most of Istria had gradually been annexed by Venice, Engelbert's descendant Count Albert III of Gorizia in 1374 bequested his Mitterburg estates to the Austrian House of Habsburg, who attached them to their Duchy of Carniola and gave it out in fief to various families, the last of which was the comital House of Montecuccoli from 1766.

Giacomo Pylarini ( Jacob ) ( born 1659 – 1718 ) was a Venetian physician and consul for the republic of Venice in Smyrna who in 1701 on the children of the English ambassador to Constantinople, gave the first smallpox inoculation outside of Turkey.

However, the destruction of the Arab fleet gave control of the Western Mediterranean to Genoa, Venice, and Pisa.

The Fourth Crusade, with the loot obtained from the sack of Constantinople ( 1204 ), and other historical situations, gave Venice an Eastern influence until the late 14th century.

Over the years, Venice gave large autonomy to this province of its Stato da Tera, that remained a de facto independent area and was given both the titles of Magnifica Patria ( Magnificent Homeland ) and Figlia primogenita della Serenissima ( firstborn daughter of the Serenissima ).

Marco Polo, who visited China's Kublai Khan's court, traveled in 1292 through Kollam on his return journey to Venice, and gave an interesting account of the flourishing port of Kollam ( coilum, as he called it ) and its trade relations inter connectivity with China in the east and Europe to the west.

In Venice, in Tuscany, in Naples, in Portugal, they inspired the vigorous efforts of enlightened despots to reform the Church from above ; and they gave a fresh impetus to the movement against the Jesuits, which, under pressure of the secular governments, culminated in the suppression of the Society by Pope Clement XIV in 1773.

After a Scaliger domination in 1329 – 1339, the city gave itself to the Republic of Venice, becoming the first notable mainland possession of the Serenissima.

But the person who gave lustre to Caffé Lavena, patronizing it from his first coming to Venice and becoming an habitual customer, was the composer Richard Wagner.