venezia

We have had peasants republics in Dark Age Europe (Frisia, San Marino, even Venezia and Genoa and a dozen elective city-states).

I wonder if any of them knew what is a Doge, in Venezia style, not the acronym.

I live in Friuli Venezia Giulia and not knowing the local dialect I'm often excluded from a lot of discussions.

Like Venezia (and arguably, various other parts of Italy), it was built to do something that is now largely unnecessary, so it will likely survive only as a curiosity.

I was just at the Biennale di Venezia [1].

Last time I checked, Marco Polo was supposed to never have visited china and all the rest, but based his work of fiction on reports heard in venezia by traders.

Productive and democratic discourse consists of people assembling a community of their peers eye-to-eye to solve local issues, not billionaires and dictators addressing a mob like Mussolini on the Palazzo Venezia with a megaphone.

I grew up in Italy, lived abroad from 2008 to 2020 (Luxembourg, Singapore, San Francisco), then moved back to Italy, and settled in Venezia since.

Still, even if the parent post is indeed technically correct I don’t think it really matters the same way it doesn’t really matter if you call Roma Rome or Milano Milan or Venezia Venice.

If you happen to be in Venezia, Italy, and are interested in glass work, I suggest you visit this show [0] by Ritsue Mishima, a great Japanese artist who lives in Venezia and creates her work by collaborating with glass-makers in Murano.

For that matter, most people here in Italy look at you a bit funny if you talk about cardinal directions, and are more comfortable with "towards Venezia" or "in the direction of Verona" or that kind of thing.

The "exclusive rights in exchange for publishing" seems to have been the very idea behind patents for hundreds of years, all the way back to Jerusalem and Venezia according to Wikipedia, and also defined as such in the modern patent systems established later, in the US and elsewhere.

True balkanization does not occur in Italy, except Trieste and perhaps parts of Friuli-Venezia Giulia...

The barrel rolled down the street and came to a stop outside Cafe´ Venezia.

After ~9 years in California, I moved from San Francisco to Venice, Italy (Venezia) in late 2020.