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A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) c ...
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The Venetian women (Anzòla and Valiera) and their maids speak Venetian, while the porter speaks Bergamasque. [ 8 ] The play was adapted in 1958 by Ingmar Bergman as the Swedish television drama The Venetian ( Venetianskan ), and in 1986 by Mauro Bolognini as the erotic movie The Venetian Woman ( La Venexiana ).
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This category contains articles with Venetian-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
Venetian literature is the corpus of literature in Venetian, the vernacular language of the region roughly corresponding to Venice, from the 12th century.Venetian literature, after an initial period of splendour in the sixteenth century with the success of artists such as Ruzante, reached its zenith in the eighteenth century, thanks to its greatest exponent, dramatist Carlo Goldoni.
John Vansittart is a young man of the landed gentry on a solo tour of Italy. In Venice during Carnival, he meets a beautiful peasant woman, Fiordelisa Vivanti, a lace-maker from Burano.