🎥8 December 2000. Venice in Movie Series.
Italian for Beginners (Danish: Italiensk for begyndere) a Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Lone Scherfig is released. It stars Danish actors Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund and Peter Gantzler, together with Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk and Sara Indrio Jensen.
The movie, mainly filmed in Venice, was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of handheld video cameras and natural lighting, and is known as Dogme XII.
#VeniceMovies #8December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0I4l3J9ljA

🎥10 December 2010. Venice in Movie Series.
The Tourist, American romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and starring Angelina Jolie, #JohnnyDepp, Paul Bettany, and Timothy Dalton is released.
Despite the poor critical response, the film had a great success in terms of public and awards.
Needless to say it is almost entirely filmed in Venice, here's the Trailer👇
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #10December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0vcopCNG0

🎥12 December 1999. Venice in Movie Series.
The Talented Mr. Ripley an American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella is released. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles.
Mainly set in #Italy, most scenes were shot in Venice, San Remo and Rome.
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #CaffeFlorian #12December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e-Si4oGEw

🎥19 December 1968. Venice and Dolomites in Movie Series.
A Place for Lovers (Italian: Amanti, French: Le Temps des amants) a French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra, and Cesare Zavattini is released.
The film is based on the play Gli Amanti by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni).
The scenes are mostly filmed beween Venice #Lagoon and Cortina d'Ampezzo #Dolomites.
#VeniceMovies #DolomitesMovies #19December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWPJfbQmHCA

📜15 January 1623

400 years ago Paolo Sarpi passed away in his birthplace, Venice.
One of those historical figures noone knows and remembers about, perhaps because his main activity was the pensatore ("the man who thinks").

#PaoloSarpi was a Venetian historian, prelate and statesman who spent his life defending the freedom of thought and speech of the Venetian Republic in defiance of the Papal interdict 💪🏻
Venice was in fact a Republic founded on secularism, it was of course a Catholic city as everywhere in #Italy, but never accepted religious interferences on government of public life!
As a defender of the liberties and proponent of the separation of Church and State, Sarpi got famous all over Europe as a hero of republicanism, later cited as an influential figure by philosophers of The Enlightenment!

Paolo Sarpi was friend to leaders of the "Scientific Revolution", such as Francis Bacon, William Harvey and most notably patron to
👉 Galileo!

📸☝️Paolo Sarpi statue in Venice
#15January #VeniceHistory

📜25 January 1348
A big "terremoto" (earthquake) probably the most devastating in #VeniceHistory, hits the city and all North East #Italy.
The earthquake caused 10 consecutive days of Acqua Granda (flood) and accelerated the spread of the "Peste Nera" (Black Plague).
Venice, at the time inhabited by 100.000 people lost 3 quarters of its population that year! 😱
The 25th of January became known for centuries among Venetians as “San Paolo del terremoto” (after the Saint of the day).

From a local chronicle in those days:
“Fu così grande che scorlò tutta la città in modo tale che le campane sonavano da per loro, et caderono in terra i campanili di S. Silvestro, S. Vidal, S. Giacomo dall’Orio, S. Anzolo et la fazzada della chiesa di S. Basilio. Durò diese giorni continui e tutto il popolo stava con grandissimo spavento”.

#25January #Earthquake #HighWater #VeniceFlood

📜26 January 1699
The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed in today's Serbia between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire.
The Treaty ended the 16 year long Great Turkish War and the new borders between European and Ottoman countries were agreed.

Venice, which played an important role in the sea war victories thanks to the amazing strategic wit of the Doge #FrancescoMorosini who never lost a single battle, gained dominion of coastal territories such as Dalmatia and Morea (= Greek Peloponnesus) in addition to the islands of Crete and Cyprus already controlled.

It was the maximum expansion ever for Venice Republic!
The new Venetian administration was split into 3 entities: the Dogado (Venice city and surroundings), the Stato de Tera (lands in Northern Italy and Istria) and the Stato de Mar (Adriatic and Mediterranean coasts and islands).

This dominion on the Adriatic and Mediterranean area lasted until 👉1797 when Napoleon came and put an end to the Serenissima Republic of Venice.

#26January #VeniceHistory