Serenissima

• “The word "Serenissima," the historical term for Venice, is repeated over and over.”

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• “Who serves who. on January 22, 2009 at 7: 20 pm | Reply Serenissima”

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• “Therese + Joel Neil Zuckerman and Matthew White If La Serenissima, as Venice is known, had any competition it was mostly from the two buff, half-naked male tritons wielding staffs and standing guard on pedestals over the festivities.”

  The Wall Street Journal: All Dressed Up to Save Venice

• “The show's title aptly suggests that Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, generally known as Canaletto, was so important to our mental picture of La Serenissima—that magical floating city—as to make of his contemporaries simply rivals.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Venice of Our Dreams

• “Il Gran Mogol, which lasts around six to seven minutes, will be played in full by the early music ensemble La Serenissima in Perth in January.”

  The Guardian: Vivaldi flute concerto discovered

• “And la Serenissima depended economically on foreigners and minorities, especially the Jews who made capital available.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Recurring Daydreams

• “La Serenissima ( 'the most serene one'), as Venice is known, is anything but.”

  Beauty Is Difficult

• “Venetian history, culture, religion, food – she relishes them all, from the glory years between the 12th and 15th centuries when La Serenissima controlled the trade routes between east and west, to the nuns at one of the more fashionable convents claiming their right to supply a mistress for the new papal nuncio, to the notice on the Grand Canal: "It is forbidden to spit on the swimmers.”

  The Guardian: Don't travel without them

• “Representing the Serenissima, Giustiniani (unsuccessfully) petitioned Pope Pius II to pardon the condottiere, whose lands Venice considered the belly of its republic.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Largely unreported by all is a fringe architecture festival scheduled at the same time as the Venice Biennale; also staged in La Serenissima, this Slamdance of the star-studded exhibition is titled Not There: Architecture Beyond Building.”

  It Still Turns and Returns

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