After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, Scarlatti took up his duties in Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717.

Francis went, with the rest of the members of the newly papal-approved Jesuit order, to Venice to be ordained to the priesthood, which took place on 24 June 1537.

In 1204, after Western crusaders sacked Constantinople, Venice won nominal control over Albania and the Epirus region of northern Greece and took possession of Durrës.

When her husband was captured in 1509 and held hostage in Venice, she took control of Mantua's military forces and held off their invaders until his release in 1512.

During this period, together with his uncle, he took part in many naval wars of the Ottoman Empire against Spain, the Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice, including the First Battle of Lepanto ( Battle of Zonchio ) in 1499 and Second Battle of Lepanto ( Battle of Modon ) in 1500.

The first production took place at La Fenice Theatre, Venice on 9 March 1844.

His successful career as a pianist and conductor took him to many of the world's major cities, including Paris, Venice, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and New York and he was known for his polite, courteous and helpful manner.

Also in the Peace of Venice, a truce was made with the Lombard cities, which took effect in August 1178.

In 643, AD the Lombards conquered the Byzantine base at Oderzo and took possession of practically all of Veneto ( and Friuli ) except for Venice and Grado.

Shehhi posed as a body guard of Atta, who was also posing as a " Saudi Arabian royal family member " while the two of them took flying lessons in Venice, Florida.

After the latter's defeat, he took refuge in Venice, carrying with him a thousand pictures.

Shooting in Venice took place on August 8.

Later came The Tempest, King Lear, a funeral march for the final scene in Hamlet, the love scene for Les Troyens ( which, some claim, Berlioz took from The Merchant of Venice ), and Béatrice and Benedict.

The shooting for Eine venezianische Nacht by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller took place in Venice.

After Modigliani recovered from the second bout of pleurisy, his mother took him on a tour of southern Italy: Naples, Capri, Rome and Amalfi, then north to Florence and Venice.

It took its later and more magnificent form after the visit of Pope Alexander III and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I to Venice in 1177.

After a few months he took a trip to northern Italy, visiting Lucca, Florence and Venice, but was forced to return when he received news that his father had died.

A peace treaty was signed between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in October 1540, under which the Turks took control of the Venetian possessions in the Morea and in Dalmatia and of the formerly Venetian islands in the Aegean, Ionian and eastern Adriatic Seas.

The revolt took Venice five years to quell.

The competitor who took Petrucci's printing privilege away from him in Rome, Andrea Antico, also took over his printing business in Venice in 1520.

From Lausanne, Maistre emigrated to Venice, and then Cagliari, where the King of Piedmont-Sardinia was exiled after French armies took Turin in 1798.

A few days afterwards, having succeeded in making a better telescope than the first, he took it to Venice where he communicated the details of his invention to the public and presented the instrument itself to the doge Leonardo Donato, who was sitting in full council.

Supreme military commanders sometimes also took this title in early medieval Italy, for example in the Papal States and in Venice, whose Doge claimed to be the successor to the Exarch of Ravenna.

His task as doge was to lead Venice in a long and protracted series of wars against Milan, governed by the Visconti, who were attempting to dominate all of northern Italy.

He is now the lead singer of the Niche Makers, a band based in Venice, California.

Napoleon's biographer, Felix Markham, wrote " the partition of Venice was not only a moral blot on the peace settlement but left Austria a foothold in Italy, which could only lead to further war.

Hines performed as the lead singer and musician in a rock band called Severance in 1975 / 1976 based in Venice, California.

Shortly before the death of Pope Paul VI, when asked for his reaction to Brown's birth, the patriarch of Venice, Albino Cardinal Luciani ( later Pope John Paul I ), expressed concerns about the possibility that artificial insemination could lead to women being used as " baby factories ", but also refused to condemn the parents of the child.

The Works Progress Administration helped construct a makeshift Elizabethan stage on the Chautauqua site, and confidently billed as the " First Annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival ", Bowmer presented Twelfth Night on July 2 and July 4, 1935 and The Merchant of Venice on July 3, with Bowmer directing and playing the lead roles in both plays.

The vault roofs, which are visible to approaching visitors, were covered with lead sheathing inspired by the lead covering of the complexly curved roofs of the Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.

A tale set in the Cultural Revolution, it won for its young lead actor Xia Yu the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and garnered six Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan.

Henceforward, his work would lead him to be viewed in the future as the Venetian William Hogarth, painting subjects and events of everyday life in Venice.

He returned to play the lead role in Pavel Lungin's religious film " The Island " ( Russian " Остров "), which closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival.

It lies about 1. 5 km north of Venice and measures about across with a population of just over 5, 000 ( 2004 figures ).

Venice simultaneously adopted measures to restrict it: the right of the secular tribunals to take cognizance of the offences of ecclesiastics had been asserted in two leading cases and the scope of two ancient laws of the city: one forbidding the foundation of churches or ecclesiastical congregations without the consent of the state, the other forbidding acquisition of property by priests or religious bodies.

Venice, imitating the odious measures of the German cities, assigned to the Jews a special quarter ( ghetto ).

Atta, along with Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in Venice, Florida, and visited Huffman Aviation to " check out the facility.

In 1777 the island came under the jurisdiction of the Magistrato alla Sanità ( Public Health Office ), and became a check point for all goods and people coming to and going from Venice by ship.

In 1537, Suleyman the Magnificent declared war upon Venice and his admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa spread fire and sword upon the Ionian Islands, and in October fell upon the island of Aegina.

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

The newly invented German printing press spread rapidly throughout Europe in the fifteenth century, and Venice was quick to adopt it.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

Furthermore, Whistler influenced the American art community in Venice, especially Frank Duveneck ( and Duveneck's ' boys ') and Robert Blum who emulated Whistler's vision of city and later spread his methods and influence back to America.

During the Great War ( 1683 – 90 ) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League — created with the sponsorship of the Pope and including Austria, Poland and Venice — these three powers as means of divide and conquer strategy, incited including Serbs to rebel against the Ottoman authorities and soon uprisings and terrorism spread throughout the western Balkans: from Montenegro and the Dalmatian Coast to the Danube basin and Old Serbia ( Macedonia, Raška, Kosovo and Metohija ).

It later spread to Venice, where the remains of ancient Greek culture were brought together, providing humanist scholars with new texts.

The spread of the Order began in 1218 when a monastery was founded in Perugia, new foundations quickly followed in Florence, Venice, Mantua, and Padua.

Gifted with eloquence and energy, he popularized in Italy the economic ideas of Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, worked for the establishment of a commercial college at Venice, and contributed to the spread of people's banks on a basis of limited liability throughout the country.

The fame of the spectacular, sonorous music of San Marco at this time spread across Europe, and numerous musicians came to Venice to hear, to study, to absorb and bring back what they learned to their countries of origin.

In 1923, together with Gabriele D ' Annunzio and Gian Francesco Malipiero from Venice, he founded an association to promote the spread of modern Italian music, the " Corporation of the New Music ".

* Photo spread of Venice, special events and isles of its region ( texts and Venice's history in German )

On the top of the gothic window there's also a marble frieze with a helmet surmounted with a spread lion which reminds the role of the doge as the captain of the republic ; at each side of the central helmet we can find two putti holding a shield which represents the Foscari's coat of arms with the winged lion, symbol of Venice.

Venice, urged on by Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, decided to intervene on the side of Florence ( 1425 ) and the war spread to Lombardy.

His fame spread rapidly throughout Italy during the 1730s, with performances at Venice, Turin, Milan, Florence, before returning to Rome for a great success in Johann Adolf Hasse's Cajo Fabricio.

The film chronicles the history of King Sebastian I of Portugal, and at a screening at the 2004 Venice Film Festival Oliveira acknowledged that US President George W. Bush had " a " Sebastianist " inclination in his expressed desire to spread democracy and freedom around the globe in his own version of the Fifth Empire.

Later adopted by Venice from where the practice spread all around in Europe.

The doubtful allegiance of the Dalmatians tended to protract the struggle between Venice and Hungary, which was further complicated by internal discord due largely to the spread of the Bogomil heresy, and by many outside influences.