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Monthly Archives: October 2018
Why Should Someone Read …
…my books? You can find out the answer to this and other questions in an interview recently posted by the Italian American Press, an online resource listing dozens of books about Italian American topics. They include fiction, history, biography, memoir, … Continue reading
Posted in A Beautiful Woman in Venice, Casanova, Gondolas, Italian heritage, Venice, Writing
Tagged books, Casanova, Free Gondola Ride, Gondolas, gondolier, history, interviews, Italian history, Italian men, Italian women, Italian writers, italy, literature, travel, travel writing, venezia, Venice, Venice history, writers, writing
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Nuns Like Tchotchkes, Too
Who can resist taking a picture like this? Don’t you want to know what each of them bought? I vote for heart-shaped sunglasses, which were in this summer, or a striped gondolier shirt, or maybe friendship bracelets all around. … Continue reading
Posted in Venice
Tagged campo, Campo San Geremia, churches, Italian women, italy, photos, travel, venezia, Venice
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Traduzione–Seductive Venice in Translation
I am so pleased to announce that Seductive Venice: In Casanova’s Footsteps, has been translated into Italian! As you may already know, Seductive Venice is the title of the American edition of the book, published by my small press imprint … Continue reading
Posted in Casanova, Venice, Writing
Tagged Adriano Contini, books, Casanova, Casanovist, guidebook, Italian history, Italian language, Italian men, italy, Palazzo Zaguri, seductive venice, Supernova Edizioni, translation, travel, travel writing, venezia, Venice, Venice history, walking guide, writing
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Time for an Update!
Lots of fun things to tell you about, so today you get an entry full of updates: First Spritz Is Free is making its way around the world! Besides being free to download on Smashwords and Book Funnel, you can … Continue reading
Posted in A Beautiful Woman in Venice, Casanova, Gondolas, Italian heritage, Venice, Writing
Tagged authors, books, charity, festivals, First Spritz Is Free, Free Gondola Ride, Italian history, Italian men, Italian women, italy, Little Italy, Marco Zecchin, murano, no grandi navi, san jose, Sarra Copia Sulam, Save Venice, seductive venice, venezia, Venice, Venice in Peril
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Venice, My Muse: An Interview with Luca Marchiori
Luca Marchiori was born in Venice to a Venetian father and English mother. As a small child his family took him to live in his mother’s native town of Bournemouth where he grew up, shuttling back and forward between there … Continue reading
Posted in Casanova, Venice, Writing
Tagged aperol, blogging, Casanova, Festa della Salute, First Spritz Is Free, gelato, ghetto, interviews, Italian history, Italian men, Italian women, italy, Luca Marchiori, Marietta Robusti, Panificio Volpe Giovanni, Somebody Feed Phil, spritz, travel, travel writing, vape, venezia, Venice, Venice history, writing
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“It Will Fall into Languour…”
In 1797, as Napoleon marched in to Venice, the Venetian Senate abdicated its rule. At that time, native son Giacomo Casanova had been living in Czechoslovakia for a number of years and was in fact nearing the end of his … Continue reading
Posted in Casanova, Venice, Writing
Tagged Casanova, Italian history, Italian men, italy, translation, travel, Tree of Liberty, venezia, Venice, Venice history
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