Venice, Venice
Venice and the Cultural Imagination: ‘This Strange Dream Upon the Water’
... I could point to other such confusions. But I have a bigger bone to pick with Beatty over his interpretation of Byron’s Venetian sojourn. Beatty like so many others rightly emphasises the lines in Canto IV of Childe ...
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'The city of the eye’ : urban aesthetics and surveillance in the city of Venice
... to Venice – and, indeed, Brodsky’s view of the solace-inducing aesthetic beauty of its art-architecture complex – he analyses the Renaissance draftsman’s preoccupation with one-point perspective in which the eye, ...
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Situation Venice : towards a performative 'ex planation' of a city
... Venice as a whole in gendered terms, not least that of the modern-day city „selling itself to tourism like a whore‟. In terms of „rooting out intriguing data‟ about the city, this group became conscious of the ...
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Radiological impact of phosphogypsum discharged into the Venice lagoon: 222Rn
... authorities Venice Water Authority (Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports) through its conces- sionary Consorzio Venezia Nuova, carried out an urgent safety action ...
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'A Gentile and No Jew': The Difference Marriage Makes in The Merchant of Venice
... In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare relies on all of the competing discourses of race, gender, and theology in his construction of ‘the Jew’. The theological distinction between Christian and Jew is plainly ...
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‘This is Venice: My house is not a grange’: Othello’s landscapes of the mind
... Shakespeare, however, had already played some very interesting games with offsetting the Venetian with the pastoral in The Merchant of Venice . 4 In Othello , he does so again, and demonstrates that the veneer of ...
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Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
... borrowing of these texts be seen as a strategy for attaining cultural capital, in the Bordieuan sense – or is this an overly reductive assessment of his motivations? How usual was it for non-elites to demonstrate this ...
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Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics
... of Venice - and 22 high-ranking councilors who together as a group represented 'the central mechanism in the transmission of information inside the political system' ...
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Sustainability Models for the Venice lagoon fishing sector
... therefore, the Cases of Overwhelmed, reclaimed from years ' 60 in order to constitute the third industrial zone, come colonized from one rich vegetation and fauna, until assuming extraordinary naturalistic valence. Under ...
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Walking in Sixteenth Century Venice: mobilizing the early modern city
... In early modern Venice, walking was imbued with special yet ambivalent significance as it both tied the city together and set people apart. Walking was the primary form of movement for most men and women, and it ...
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Watermarked : ‘Venice really lives up to its postcard beauty'
... of Venice at all but of other ‘watery places’, sometimes even composites of several ‘watery places’ in quite distinct ...that Venice ‘contains all other places’ but that all other places contained ...
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‘Certainly the Muslim is the very devil incarnation’: Islamophobia and The Merchant of Venice
... In this paper, we examine Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century play, The Merchant of Venice. Anti-Semitism is a key theme in this play. The well-known central character, Shylock, is a Jewish man ridiculed and ...
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High resolution simulations of a flash flood near Venice
... In order to evaluate heuristically the forecast uncertainty associated with the initial and boundary conditions, vari- ous experiments were run starting with ECMWF analyses at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC of 25 September and ...
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Enriching the Venice Italian Treebank with Dependency and Grammatical Relations
... The starting point for our conversion is the Venice Ital- ian Treebank (VIT), a treebank of written text created by the Laboratory of Computational Linguistics of Univer- sity of Venice. The resource ...
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Venice topologies/sent to Coventry
... engage with the Biennale from the twin points of view of Venice’s cityscape and a problematised ‘idea of nationhood’, as well as with the twin concepts of loops and gardens. So, where the image on the front of any one ...
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Long-term variability of storm surge frequency in the Venice Lagoon: an update thanks to 18th century sea level observations
... the Venice Lagoon is affected by a semidiurnal tide, Temanza does not report high and low waters but just one flux and one reflux per day, which very likely correspond to the daily high- est and lowest sea levels ...
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Regional and local land subsidence at the Venice coastland by TerraSAR-X PSI
... Apart from Venice, which has been the focus of several stud- ies on land subsidence most recently (Tosi et al., 2013), other important cities and tourist villages are located in the area. Two main tourist centres ...
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Venice Efforts to Conquer Durres in the Medieval Age
... of Venice for its occupation, but the appearance of the Ottomans in Balkan region represented a tough rivalry to the rule of Venice in the Adriatic ...from Venice an economic centre, they also ...
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Review: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s comedy of cruelty
... The play relies on but feels distant from the merchant world of naval ventures where the Venetians hazard all their worth in precious goods and exotic locations. For a play peppered with nautical references, we are very ...
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Medical care in early modern Venice
... also numerous. The Necrologi record stillbirths differently, and occasionally specify the gestational age of the fetus in months in these cases. All the same, th may be slightly inflated by the religious imperative to ...
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