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Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals...

1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Non mancano...

the Republic of Cyprus, is a country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel...

di Candia) was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony of the Republic of Venice, from the initial Venetian conquest...

Italy, officially the Italian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in the southern European Union. To the north...

nations. Venice may properly be called the most ancient republic of modern times... The commerce of Venice had sought the most distant shores of the then...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in the eastern European Union. It is bordered by Lithuania to...

thrown upon the shores of Asia by Genoa and Venice, history has not, in fact, recorded in Italy any important outward movement of population. Alfred Legoyt...

Freedom of assembly Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly OSCE/ODIHR, 2007 Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (2nd edition) Venice Commission...

Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice; and of course, Othello. The enduring ambivalence audiences still feel toward the tortured Moor of Venice is a...

in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours (1909), ch: I: Venice, pt. I Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing...

Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 9, line 61. I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it? William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late...

softness; it is the beauty of goodness, the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman. Yriarte, Charles (1896). Venice: Its History, Art, Industries...

Extinction of the Venetian Republic": Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall...

of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean world and includes his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146...

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 92. Like madness is the glory of this life. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain...

Rest: The History of Venice, Preface p. 1 (1885). A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die—die in the grasp of the evils it is...

the tale of the "Merchant of Venice"; in which the true and incorrupt merchant,—kind and free, beyond every other Shakespearian conception of men,—is opposed...

the Republic of Ragusa. But if some mind very different from ours were to look upon some property of some curved line as we do on the evenness of a straight...

Seville but came from Genoa and he was by nationality a citizen of the Republic of Venice, which then ran an island empire in the Eastern Mediterranean...