Francesco Morosini, Admiral and Doge of Venice: Meet the man who blew up the Parthenon THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL'S CAT

Italy, 1918: Hemingway finds his first love and the inspiration for "A Farewell to Arms" AGNES AND ERNIE AND THE GREAT WAR

Grappa is a spirit distilled from the solid mass left after wine-pressing. Italians say it “corrects” their coffee CAFFÈ CORRETTO

This building was once the tollbooth for all of Venice’s trade with northern Europe WHAT NEWS ON THE RIALTO?

Did Italy's artistic renaissance begin when Enrico Scrovegni hired Giotto to decorate a chapel in Padua? MERCY FOR THE MONEYLENDER

San Zeno of Verona exorcised a demon from an emperor's daughter, though she lived in the previous century FISHING FOR MIRACLES

Robert Browning blames the Venetian Republic’s fall on composer Baldassare Galuppi ... poetically speaking A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S

They called him Il Furioso because of the speed and violence of his working technique IL FURIOSO AND THE BROTHERS OF SAN ROCCO

A boat ride on the Brenta Canal, to visit the mainland haunts of the 18th- century Venetian elite ON THE BRENTA RIVIERA

“Cangrande” means “big dog” or “great dog.” Cangrande I della Scala, Lord of Verona, died mysteriously in 1329 DEATH OF THE BIG DOG

Carlo Goldoni wrote over 200 theatrical works. So when he stopped using comedic masks, it mattered UNMASKING THE COMEDIANS

I awoke on the 13th of November, 2019 to TV images of a Venice 85% underwater. We went there, of course REFLECTIONS ON THE WATER

You could travel the world to see all of Antonio Canova’s famous works, or you could visit his hometown A PILGRIMAGE TO POSSAGNO

I stepped ashore at the cemetery island, San Michele, to find the tomb of one whose fame is rather tenuous BARON CORVO'S GRAVE

It’s said that Antonello da Messina brought the secrets of oil painting to Venice. But where did he learn them? THE MYSTERY MAN OF MESSINA

Of the two ancient columns of Venice’s Piazzetta, one bears the Lion of St. Mark; the other, a man standing on a crocodile TRADING UP