Word: venetian
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...translation by Grace Lovat Fraser is spiritedly done. To preserve in a measure the flavor of the original, the translator has rendered into an English provincial dialect the parts of three or four of the characters written by Goldoni in the Venetian speech...
...broad balcony looking down upon the stage. Across the way is the entrance to an inn, the "Aquila D'Ors". Between the two buildings are steps and an embankment, which suggest the presence of a canal, and above which may be seen a deep expanse of sunny Venetian...
Britain. The Ionian isles, of which Corfu is one, belonged in the 18th Century to the Venetian Republic. According to the terms of the peace of Campo Formio, the Republic was divided between France and Austria and the Ionian isles went to France. Later?in the Napoleonic Wars?Britain obtained possession of this group of islands and held them until 1863, when she ceded them to Greece, but, on account of its naval importance, the neutrality of Corfu was guaranteed by the Great Powers of the time. Italy, who was not at that time a united nation, could not sign...
...horse, worn by Louis XII's master of artillery and his mount in 1527, has been added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, and mounted on a model of the famous horse in Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleone, the Venetian...
Trieste, Verona, Vicenza, Dalmatia and the old Venetian colonies of Albania...