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NATIONAL POETRY DAY Events
NATIONAL POETRY DAY, 2009 San Marco Press presents an offshore Poetry Weekend in Venice to celebrate UK National Poetry Day Information and bookings (0039) 041 2759456 / venezialibri@yahoo.it THURSDAY October 9th: CAMPIONARIO, a Sampler for National Poetry Day Old...
Book Presentation, Ateneo Veneto
PRESENTATION of LE ISOLE ABBANDONATE DELLA LAGUNA (THE ABANDONED ISLANDS OF THE VENETIAN LAGOON) will be made at the prestigious ATENEO VENETO in VENICE. Also present the President of the Provinicia Davide Zoggia & the Mayor of Venice Massimo Caccari. January 26,...
July 31, 1945—Ven. Lonsdale Ragg died in Bath aged 78.
He had been British chaplain in Venice 1905-1909 and wrote, with his wife Laura, two worthwhile publications on the city, the Venice volume of the attractive A & C Black Colour Book series, (with the wishy-washy watercolour illustrations that embellish those...
July 14, 1902, 9.55 a.m.—The Campanile in St Mark’s Square collapsed.
Reuter's terse communiqué read as follows: The Campanile of St. Mark’s Cathedral, 98 metres high (about 318 feet), has just fallen down on to the Piazza. It collapsed where it stood, and is now a heap of ruins. The cathedral and the Doge’s Palace are quite safe. Only...
April 16, 1846—Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti dies.
April 16th, 1846: Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti, composer and double bass player, (‘the first great virtuoso’), composer and friend of Haydn and Beethoven, died at his lodgings in Leicester Square in London aged 83. Dragonetti was born in Venice in 1763, the son of...
October 13, 1822–Antonio Canova dies
The internationally renowned neoclassical sculptor died aged 64. Though born on Venetian territory, at Passagno, near Asolo, and receiving his early training in the Serenissima, apprenticed to the sculptor Giuseppe Bernardi from the age of 11 and frequenting the...
December 13, 1815—Bronze horses returned to Venice
Following the Treaty of Vienna, after an exile of eighteen years, the bronze horses of San Marco were returned to Venice from Paris where they had adorned the Arc du Carousel (on which replicas now prance, with behind them a chariot originally intended to contain...
March 9, 1789—Lodovico Manin elected last Doge
Following the death of Doge Paolo Renier on 13th February, 1789, Lodovico Manin was elected 120th (and last) Doge. On being elected, Manin burst into tears and fainted. When his rival for the Dogeship, Pietro Gradenigo heard of Manin’s election he said, prophetically...
June 19, 1747—Alessandro Marcello dies.
Alessandro Marcello, nobleman, dilettante, mathematician, poet, philosopher and composer, dies in Padua, aged 77. Overshadowed by junior contemporaries Antonio Vivaldi and his own younger brother Benedetto, both of whom he outlived, he was nonetheless a significant...
September 26, 1687—An inglorious feat of Venetian arms.
On 26 September 1687, a lieutenant from Lüneburg serving in [the Venetian Captain-General Francesco] Morosini's army found himself with his mortar unit on the summit of a hill called the Mouseion in Athens... .. It cannot have been a difficult target really. The range...
