#1500s — Public Fediverse posts
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Remembering the plague
The Redentore Feast, which is held this weekend, commemorates the end of the plague epidemic, which savaged Venice in 1575–77.
In those two disastrous years, between fifty and sixty thousand persons died, in a city with a population of just three times that.
One Venetian in three died of the plague.
It is difficult to fathom a disaster of such dimensions. It is even harder to understand what it did to the people who lived through it.
#1500s #Plague #RepublicOfVenice #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/remembering-the-plague/
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Remembering the plague
The Redentore Feast, which is held this weekend, commemorates the end of the plague epidemic, which savaged Venice in 1575–77.
In those two disastrous years, between fifty and sixty thousand persons died, in a city with a population of just three times that.
One Venetian in three died of the plague.
It is difficult to fathom a disaster of such dimensions. It is even harder to understand what it did to the people who lived through it.
#1500s #Plague #RepublicOfVenice #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/remembering-the-plague/
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Ah, the riveting tale of math's linguistic struggle from Latin to English—because apparently, people in the #1500s had nothing better to do. 🤓📚 Let's celebrate the groundbreaking revelation that math books eventually switched languages...in only 48 years! 🎉📖 Who knew math was such a drama queen? 🤔💁♂️
https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html #mathhistory #languagechange #linguisticdrama #education #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the riveting tale of math's linguistic struggle from Latin to English—because apparently, people in the #1500s had nothing better to do. 🤓📚 Let's celebrate the groundbreaking revelation that math books eventually switched languages...in only 48 years! 🎉📖 Who knew math was such a drama queen? 🤔💁♂️
https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html #mathhistory #languagechange #linguisticdrama #education #HackerNews #ngated -
The Blood of Christ
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar, and that was no different in the times of the Republic of Venice.
It should therefore be no surprise that several events took place during the week of Easter, and that all classes participated.
A couple of these events included a rather special relic, which is still in the treasury of the Basilica di San Marco.
It is a sample of the blood of Jesus.
Just to muddle the waters, there's a similar relic in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
Both of them originate in Constantinople.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Easter #histodons #Schools #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-blood-of-christ/
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The Blood of Christ
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar, and that was no different in the times of the Republic of Venice.
It should therefore be no surprise that several events took place during the week of Easter, and that all classes participated.
A couple of these events included a rather special relic, which is still in the treasury of the Basilica di San Marco.
It is a sample of the blood of Jesus.
Just to muddle the waters, there's a similar relic in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
Both of them originate in Constantinople.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Easter #histodons #Schools #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-blood-of-christ/
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Episode 25 — The Venetian Carnival
The Venetian carnival was famous, and was so already in the Middle Ages. Kings travelled across Europe to see the Venetian carnival. It was one of the must-see things for travellers to Venice.
The carnival was not, however, like the modern cheap replica.
The ancient Venetian carnival sported such noble activities as pig-chasing in the alleyways, a flying Turk delivering flowers, and the public execution of a bull by sword.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Carnival
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-25-the-venetian-carnival/
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Episode 25 — The Venetian Carnival
The Venetian carnival was famous, and was so already in the Middle Ages. Kings travelled across Europe to see the Venetian carnival. It was one of the must-see things for travellers to Venice. The carnival was not, however, like the modern cheap replica. The ancient Venetian carnival sported such noble activities as pig-chasing in the alleyways, a flying Turk delivering flowers, and the public execution of a bull by sword.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Carnival
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-25-the-venetian-carnival/
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Beheading bulls
Lent, leading up to Easter, is a period of abstinence and repentance.
Forty days, where the basic rule is that if it's fun, it's probably not allowed.
Carnival originated, at least in part, as a reaction to the meagre forty days, when meat, wine, cakes, and rich foods in general were off the menu.
Hence, we have the fat week leading up to Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of the carnival — Mardi Gras for the French inclined, martedi grasso in Italy, both meaning Fat Tuesday — but the preceding Thursday was also an important feast.
In Venice, this was the Feast of Giovedì Grasso, which was celebrated in grand style in the Piazzetta, the smaller part of Piazza San Marco near the two columns.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/beheading-bulls/
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Beheading bulls
Lent, leading up to Easter, is a period of abstinence and repentance.
Forty days, where the basic rule is that if it's fun, it's probably not allowed.
Carnival originated, at least in part, as a reaction to the meagre forty days, when meat, wine, cakes, and rich foods in general were off the menu.
Hence, we have the fat week leading up to Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the last day of the carnival — Mardi Gras for the French inclined, martedi grasso in Italy, both meaning Fat Tuesday — but the preceding Thursday was also an important feast.
In Venice, this was the Feast of Giovedì Grasso, which was celebrated in grand style in the Piazzetta, the smaller part of Piazza San Marco near the two columns.
#1500s #1600s #1700s #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/beheading-bulls/
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Thomas Philologus Ravennas
There's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance.
Yet another saint, one presumes, before walking on towards the main sights at St Mark's.
Well, no!
That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer, physician, patron of the arts and sciences, knighted in several countries, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies to the rich for syphilis.
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/thomas-philologus-ravennas/
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Thomas Philologus Ravennas
There's a statue of a bearded man on the façade of the church of San Zulian, above the entrance.
Yet another saint, one presumes, before walking on towards the main sights at St Mark's.
Well, no!
That's Tommaso Ravenna, astrologer, physician, patron of the arts and sciences, knighted in several countries, who in the 1500s got rich and famous selling remedies to the rich for syphilis.
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/thomas-philologus-ravennas/
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"Studio di due figure maschili in lotta" by Luca Cambasio, 1545. Italy.
#illustration #art #painting #cambasio #LucaCambasio #1500s #PublicDomain
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"Studio di due figure maschili in lotta" by Luca Cambasio, 1545. Italy.
#illustration #art #painting #cambasio #LucaCambasio #1500s #PublicDomain
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Episode 21 — The Plague Doctor
The plague doctor, long black cloak, pointy fingers, beaked mask with empty eyes. A giant black raven, the harbinger of a terrible death.
We all know that image. It is part of our culture and mythology. That was how medieval plague doctors looked, right?
Well, guess who didn't know about the beaked plague doctor? The plague doctors of the 1500s and 1600s didn't know about the beaked plague doctor.
Yet, they were him. Or were they?
#1500s #1600s #Plague #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-21-the-plague-doctor/
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The well-known image of the plague doctor with the beaked mask don't really have a lot of support in our sources. Did he even exist?
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During the 1400s, Venice had created defences against the recurring outbreaks of the plague, and they kept Venice mostly safe for the following centuries. Mostly safe.
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The Battle of Lepanto
Yesterday, October 7th, was the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, fought in 1571 between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League, which included all the states of the Italian peninsula, including the Spanish Empire.
A combined Christian navy of over 200 galleys with 40,000 sailors and soldiers, clashed with over 300 Ottoman ships, with almost 50,000 men. The Holy League, however, had far more guns than the Turkish side.
War galleys were rowed ships, descendants of ancient Roman triremes. Besides the sailors and soldiers, each side had around 40,000 rowers. They were usually chained to the benches. Some were prisoners of war from earlier conflicts, some caught in slave raids on the Mediterranean coasts, and others sentenced to forced labour for some offence.
The navy of the Holy League was therefore partially rowed by Muslim prisoners, and the Ottoman navy by Christian captives.
The battle ended with the Holy League victorious.
#1500s #histodons #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-battle-of-lepanto/
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Proper ball games for decent people? Not all ball games are equal; some are more equal than others.
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The Venetians played a ball game (or maybe two different) which was called football, or kicking ball, but it was more rugby-ish, but also not really.
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Playing at ball
The ancient Venetians enjoyed their well-known sports such as human towers, bull fights and fights on bridges using fists or sticks, not to speak of chickens on a pole, squashing cats bareheaded, and tearing the heads off geese while jumping in a canal.
These were, however, mostly entertainments and games for the lower classes.
Decent people, and nobles, engaged in more exotic activities, such as tennis, football and other ball games.
One such ball game, usually just called giuocar al pallone — playing at ball. It is a game, which probably originates in the Middle Ages.
#1500s #1700s #BallGames #Sports #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/playing-at-ball/
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The story of Bianca Cappello tells us something about the institutions of the Republic of Venice, the agility of its government, and of early modern diplomacy.
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Daughter of the Republic
Bianca Cappello was created “daughter of the Republic” because Venice didn’t have princesses.
https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/daughter-of-the-republic/
#1500s #BiancaCappello #DaughterOfTheRepublic #RepublicOfVenice #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice -
Bianca Cappello had eloped to Florence with her lover, whom she soon after married. She then became the mistress of the prince regent of the Duchy of Florence. Her husband took a mistress of his own, but her family murdered him on Blanca’s doorstep. Does all that sound bad? Well, it’s getting worse.
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In 1563, a young Venetian noblewoman eloped with her lover, never to come back to Venice again. She went on to have an eventful, and highly unusual life, in Florence.
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🪐 A Royal Brass Astrolabe Made by Al-Ahmar Al-Nujumi for the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II, 1505 #Astrolabe #Astrology #1500s
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The 1400s and 1500s were centuries of enormous change for Venice, and for the rest of the world. The changing geography moved Venice from a central position in European trade to the margins.
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The book caught flack, sure - from the credulous, those swept up in the panic, and those - even Parliamentarians - who saw it as a chance to raise their profile and be seen as combatting the imaginary evil.
But - again, because the book was so brilliant & true in its piss-takes of their belief - they looked absurd. Its critics had lost public support.
Words make things happen. They have power. But they can save things from happening too.
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The book caught flack, sure - from the credulous, those swept up in the panic, and those - even Parliamentarians - who saw it as a chance to raise their profile and be seen as combatting the imaginary evil.
But - again, because the book was so brilliant & true in its piss-takes of their belief - they looked absurd. Its critics had lost public support.
Words make things happen. They have power. But they can save things from happening too.
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One of my favourite moments in history.
In 1584, as witch panic gripped Europe & threatened to sweep Britain, a member of Parliament called Reginald Scott wrote a book, 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', absolutely dismantling the belief in witches in ways funny, elegant, irrefutable & memorable.
‘The Discoverie of Witches’ became a sensation.
As a result, the British witch craze was muted. 1000s of lives were saved.
#books #witchcraft #witch #WitchTrials #craze #moralpanic #1500s #literature
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One of my favourite moments in history.
In 1584, as witch panic gripped Europe & threatened to sweep Britain, a member of Parliament called Reginald Scott wrote a book, 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', absolutely dismantling the belief in witches in ways funny, elegant, irrefutable & memorable.
‘The Discoverie of Witches’ became a sensation.
As a result, the British witch craze was muted. 1000s of lives were saved.
#books #witchcraft #witch #WitchTrials #craze #moralpanic #1500s #literature
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They had e-mail in the 16th century?!? 🤪
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The Venetian constitution
Several recent Venetian Stories and many other posts on the History Walks Venice website have touched on legal issues: laws around prostitution and fun-loving nuns, but also issues like legal protections for inventors and just keeping order in general.
One particularity shared by these stories is that the people and institutions making the laws were the same as those who enforced the laws and who judged transgressions of the same laws.
#1200s #1300s #1400s #1500s #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-venetian-constitution/
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Fornicators of Nuns
"Fornicators of Nuns" is probably not the first term you'll be looking for when you settle into an armchair with an old dictionary, just to browse it a bit out of general curiosity. It is one of those signs that the past is like another country. They did things differently, and sometimes very differently.
#1500s #1600s #LawAndOrder #Slavery #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/fornicators-of-nuns/
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Neptune, from the Story of Ulysses (1549-51) by Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596). Fresco. Something a bit William Blake-like about this.
Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion + the counterpart of the Greek god, Poseidon.
#1500s #Neptune #Ulysses #PellegrinoTibaldi #Fresco #Romangod #Poseidon #Myth #Mythology
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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan (1518) is a painting by the Italian High #Renaissance artist Raphael. This painting has symbolic meaning within the #Christian religion as it symbolizes God triumphing over evil. Raphael had a gift for creating images that evoked divinity in a subtle way and was known being skillful at creating space within his compositions as well as movement captured at a stand still.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-saint-michael-vanquishing-satan-1518-raphael.html
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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan (1518) is a painting by the Italian High #Renaissance artist Raphael. This painting has symbolic meaning within the #Christian religion as it symbolizes God triumphing over evil. Raphael had a gift for creating images that evoked divinity in a subtle way and was known being skillful at creating space within his compositions as well as movement captured at a stand still.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-saint-michael-vanquishing-satan-1518-raphael.html
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April 21 - the birthday of Ludovico Carracci (1555 - 1619) - an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by an intense mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/annunciation-1604-ludovico-carracci.html
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April 21 - the birthday of Ludovico Carracci (1555 - 1619) - an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by an intense mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/annunciation-1604-ludovico-carracci.html
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Don’t take this wrong, but my question is - who wasn’t #colonized? The #1500s were a free-for-all. The English, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russians & the #CatholicChurch tried to take over the planet. I hope I didn’t leave anybody out!
I love #Scotland by the way. I’m clan #Gordon on my mother’s side. Lang may yer lum reek.
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Don’t take this wrong, but my question is - who wasn’t #colonized? The #1500s were a free-for-all. The English, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russians & the #CatholicChurch tried to take over the planet. I hope I didn’t leave anybody out!
I love #Scotland by the way. I’m clan #Gordon on my mother’s side. Lang may yer lum reek.
