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Palazzo Gradenigo was designed in the mid-1600s by Baldassare Longhena, the architect of the iconic Basilica della Salute, which is diagonally across from the Doge's Palace, on the Grand Canal, and directly across from that more modern Venice landmark, Harry's Bar.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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"It was in horrible condition, and occupied by one of the last members of the Gradenigo family," he says.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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"A son of the Gradenigo family married the youngest daughter and final descendant of the Foscari family, which owned the neighboring property," Bergamo Rossi says.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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There were four Gradenigo doges, and the largest branch of the family moved to Rio Marin, which is in the Santa Croce section of the city, in the 15th century.
Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007
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Urseoli and Gradenigo made their monastic profession: Marinus and
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Boemondo Tiepolo (1310), for the restoration of democratic government, was repressed by the Doge Gradenigo (1289 - 1310); the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Gradenigo (quoted by Lombroso) gives the following table showing the peculiarities of the ears of 245 criminals as compared with 14,000 normal women: --
A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908
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He was married a second time to presumably a beautiful wife much younger than himself, though the chroniclers are not agreed even on the subject of her name, whether she was a Gradenigo or a
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Ducal Palace is the Parthenon of Venice, and Gradenigo its Pericles.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885
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Carta were destroyed by another great fire in 1479, together with so much of the palace on the Rio that, tho the saloon of Gradenigo, then known as the Sala de Pregadi, was not destroyed, it became necessary to reconstruct the entire façades of the portion of the palace behind the
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885
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