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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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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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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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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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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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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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Historical Connections: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek & Jan Vermeer
From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything":
The first person to describe a cell was Robert Hooke, whom we last encountered squabbling with Isaac Newton over credit for the invention of the inverse square law. Hooke achieved many things in his sixty-eight years — he was both an accomplished theoretician and a dab hand at making ingenious and useful instruments — but nothing he did brought him greater admiration than his popular book Microphagia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Miniature Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses, produced in 1665. It revealed to an enchanted public a universe of the very small that was far more diverse, crowded, and finely structured than anyone had ever come close to imagining.
Among the microscopic features first identified by Hooke were little chambers in plants that he called cells because they reminded him of monks' cells. Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork would contain 1,259,712,000 of these tiny chambers, the first appearance of such a very large number anywhere in science. Microscopes by this time had been around for a generation or so, but what set Hooke's apart were their technical supremacy. They achieved magnifications of thirty times, making them the last word in seventeenth-century optical technology.
So it came as something of a shock when just a decade later Hooke and the other members of London's Royal Society began to receive drawings and reports from an unlettered linen draper in Holland employing magnifications of up to 275 times. The draper's name was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Though he had little formal education and no background in science, he was a perceptive and dedicated observer and a technical genius.
To this day it is not known how he got such magnificent magnifications from simple handheld devices, which were little more than modest wooden dowels with a tiny bubble of glass embedded in them, far more like magnifying glasses than what most of us think of as microscopes, but really not much like either. Leeuwenhoek made a new instrument for every experiment he performed and was extremely secretive about his techniques, though he did sometimes offer tips to the British on how they might improve their resolutions.[40][40] Leeuwenhoek was close friends with another Delft notable, the artist Jan Vermeer. In the mid-1660s, Vermeer, who previously had been a competent but not outstanding artist, suddenly developed the mastery of light and perspective for which he has been celebrated ever since. Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens. No such device was listed among Vermeer’s personal effects after his death, but it happens that the executor of Vermeer’s estate was none other than Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the most secretive lens-maker of his day.
#science #biology #history #microscopic #Vermeer #Antoni-van-Leeuwenhoek #1600s #17th-century #microbiology #historical-connections #the-clementine-compendium #fun-facts #the-more-you-know #educate-yourself #Bill-Bryson #A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything #quotes #books #cellular-biology #scientific-observations -
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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 1600s and 1700s were a period of slow decline for Venice, until the Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon in 1797.
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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/
