20 May 1470: d. Pietro Bembo at #Venice#otd scholar, #poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal - the typeface Bembo [a 1929 revival of a 15thC type] is named after him (WGA/Blythwood)
The Lessico Veneto — Lexicon of the Veneto — by Fabio Mutinelli from 1851 is another of those must-have books for anybody interested in Venetian history, which is exact why it was written.
The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio
The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio from 1829 is the essential dictionary of the late Venetian language for anybody trying to read old Venetian texts.
The L’Archivio di Stato di Venezia : indice generale, storico, descrittivo ed analitico (shortened ASV Indice) by Andrea da Mosto is a very useful reference to all the major and minor institutions and offices of the Republic of Venice.
Lucas van Uffel, d. 1637/ c. 1622 by Anthony van Dyck Van Uffel was a wealthy Flemish merchant who lived in #Venice, where Van Dyck probably painted this portrait.
In search of laughs at the 2024 #Venice#Biennale
There may have not been a coherent thread at the Biennale di #Venezia this year, entitled Foreigners Everywhere, but Stanley Moss did manage to find true treasures among the repetition and pretentiousness
Photographed by Gioia Meller Markovicz