The construction of the famous Fenice lasted twenty months, and the new theatre opened with an opera by Paisiello on a libretto by Alessandro Pepoli.
GRAND CANAL FROM THE FISH MARKET
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THE LAST MAGISTRATES
The philosophical reader will naturally ask what elements composed the Great Council of the Venetian Republic at a time when France was on the brink of the Revolution, and all Europe was about to be shaken by the explosion of the first new idea that had dawned on mankind since Christianity. I shall try to answer the question.
S. BARNABÒ
There were three classes of men in the Council: first, the ancient aristo-plutocracy which, though with a few
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