Casanova Part 4b. Fate Finds a Different Way
18-year-old Casanova has a job offer as an assistant Bishop (Assistant to the Bishop, that is). But before he can take his first step on this road to the fame, fortune and social prestige that surely ...
2 Maj 202534min
Casanova Part 4a. Fate Will Find a Way
At the age of 17, Casanova suddenly lost his grandmother, his house, and his chief patron / stand-in father figure. Feeling rootless, he started to lash out and ended up being sent to a seminary in an...
28 Apr 202521min
021. Campo San Barnaba
A slighty different episode this week, as we do an outside broadcast from Venice. We look at the sights and sounds of Campo San Barnaba, in Dorsoduro. Like almost anywhere in Venice, you don't have to...
19 Apr 202519min
Art03. The Crocodile Slayer
St Theodore, or Tòdaro, stands on a crocodile-dragon at the top of one of the two huge columns on the picture-postcard San Marco waterfront. He’s usually described as the original patron saint of Veni...
9 Apr 202524min
020. The Republic Strikes Back
After last week's adventures with Patriarch Poppo, we go back to look at what was happening inside Venice. Neither a fully fledged hereditary state nor a recognisable Republic, the city's future polit...
2 Apr 202531min
019. The Trouble with the Patriarchy
Venice was moving confidently into the new millennium when we last checked in on her. But with a powerful and resurgent Holy Roman Empire on her doorstep, danger lurks around every corner. When the am...
26 Mars 202529min
Casanova Part 3. Teenage kicks
Casanova's reputation is often more of a hindrance than a help in understanding the character of the man himself. In the third part of our series marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of Venice's...
19 Mars 202539min
018. City of Millennials
We've reached the year 1000 in our story, so it's time to take a breath and think about what sort of society Venice is right now. The traces of the city's future stone-and-marble elegance are there, b...
8 Mars 202538min
