Serenissima

The word "Serenissima," the historical term for Venice, is repeated over and over.

NPR Topics: News 2010

The word "Serenissima," the historical term for Venice, is repeated over and over.

NPR Topics: News 2010

Therese + Joel Neil Zuckerman and Matthew White If La Serenissima, as Venice is known, had any competition it was mostly from the two buff, half-naked male tritons wielding staffs and standing guard on pedestals over the festivities.

All Dressed Up to Save Venice Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

The show's title aptly suggests that Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, generally known as Canaletto, was so important to our mental picture of La Serenissima—that magical floating city—as to make of his contemporaries simply rivals.

The Venice of Our Dreams Tom L. Freudenheim 2011

La Serenissima ( 'the most serene one'), as Venice is known, is anything but.

Beauty Is Difficult The Nag 2009

Il Gran Mogol, which lasts around six to seven minutes, will be played in full by the early music ensemble La Serenissima in Perth in January.

Vivaldi flute concerto discovered Severin Carrell 2010

Who serves who. on January 22, 2009 at 7: 20 pm | Reply Serenissima

Two Million Visits To Police Inspector Blog « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

And la Serenissima depended economically on foreigners and minorities, especially the Jews who made capital available.

Recurring Daydreams Paul Levy 2011

Venetian history, culture, religion, food – she relishes them all, from the glory years between the 12th and 15th centuries when La Serenissima controlled the trade routes between east and west, to the nuns at one of the more fashionable convents claiming their right to supply a mistress for the new papal nuncio, to the notice on the Grand Canal: "It is forbidden to spit on the swimmers."

Don't travel without them 2010

Representing the Serenissima, Giustiniani (unsuccessfully) petitioned Pope Pius II to pardon the condottiere, whose lands Venice considered the belly of its republic.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008