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Enclosure within a Closed Sea? The Fisheries against the Commons in the Republic of Venice in the Eighteenth Century

open access: yesJournal for the History of Environment and Society, 2021
This article will analyse the role of the authorities in the progressive restriction on the use of aquatic spaces and maritime resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the laguna of Venice.
Solène Rivoal
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Reconstructing sediment distribution in meandering river deposits through a simplified numerical modelling approach, with applications to the Holocene deposits of the Venetian Plain (Italy)

open access: yesGeological Society Special Publication, 2023
Many present-day alluvial floodplains display traces of abandoned meandering channel belts developed during the past millennia (i.e. mid- to late Holocene).
A. Sgarabotto   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Textural Characteristics of the Holocene Sandy Ridges in the Eastern Venetian Coastal Plain (North Adriatic Sea, Italy)

open access: yesWater, 2022
In the lower Piave river coastal plain (northeast of the Venice Lagoon, Italy), evidences of ancient sandy ridges testify to both the local coastline progradation and retrogradation that occurred during the Holocene.
F. Rizzetto
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Giorgione stupisce Tiziano e Giovanni Bellini di Cesare dell’Acqua

open access: yesMDCCC 1800, 2022
This article aims at presenting a painting by Cesare dell’Acqua (Piran 1821-Bruxelles 1905) as an interesting example of the nineteenth-century genre of history painting depicting scenes from the lives of Renaissance artists. The analysis of this work,
Panizon, Ermanna
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The Molin Collection Between the Old and New Regime

open access: yesActa historiae artis Slovenica, 2023
Starting from the cross-analysis of printed texts, manuscripts and works of art preserved in the city’s museums, the essay reflects on the impact that the political, social and cultural upheavals triggered by the fall of the Serenissima had on the ...
Arianna Candeago
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transformer and Influencer: Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s Impact on Western European Geography

open access: yesJournal of Early Modern Studies, 2023
In the mid-sixteenth century, the study of cosmography was in a state of upheaval in Western Europe, for the European voyages of exploration had disrupted the old ideas of the nature and structure of the world.
Margaret Small
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« Sarà via mai striga? » : sorcières de ville au prisme des conventions comiques sur la scène italienne de la Renaissance

open access: yesILCEA, 2022
In Italian Renaissance comedy, from Pietro Aretino’s Cortigiana of 1525 to the Venetian polyglot comedy of the second half of the century, a comic and picturesque character with stereotyped attributes, the old matchmaker/witch, in the line of Fernando de
Costanza Jori
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The Lottery Fantasy and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Venetian Literature: Carlo Goldoni, Pietro Chiari, and Giacomo Casanova

open access: yes, 2022
This article examines the lottery fantasy as a cultural figure and literary topic in the works of Carlo Goldoni, Pietro Chiari, and Giacomo Casanova. The lottery fantasy is to be understood as the dream of social ascension through sudden, life-changing ...
MariusWarholm Haugen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Illustriousness in the farmhouse villa: reading virtue from a Flemish-Veronese merchant family's history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century.
Dewhirst, Catherine
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Cultural and Knowledge Exchange between Dubrovnik and Livorno at the Time of Ferdinando I de’ Medici Through the Eyes of Vincentius Demetrius Volcius Raguseus

open access: yesNuova Antologia Militare, 2023
Dubrovnik (Ragusa) and Livorno (Leghorn) are two old maritime cities in the Mediterranean whose strong cultural and scientific connections are here explored through the work of Vicko Dimitrije Volčić (Vincentius Demetrius Volcius Raguseus). Volčić worked
Mirela Altic
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