**Fabro — Blacksmith — Grevembroch 3-45** This painting depicts a blacksmith, in formal dress for a celebration, carrying a large, blunt two-handed sword used for beheading bulls during bull-fights in Venice. One or more bulls were decapitated during […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

For my sins in a past life, it has become my job to help prepare offers of hardware updates to our customers. This past weekend, prices for HP servers and most components increased by 40% to 70% for most components at our usual supplier. Oh, and 16 GB RAM now costs 7.5 times as much as it did a […]

**Giuoco del calzo — Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — 35** The game of _Calcio_ — a rugby-like game — was usually played in the Campo Sant'Alvise during Lent. Only noblemen could play _calcio_ there. #engravings #sources #sports #venezia #venice […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

**Episode 25 — The Venetian Carnival** The Venetian carnival was famous, and was so already in the Middle Ages. Kings travelled across Europe to see the Venetian carnival. It was one of the must-see things for travellers to Venice. The carnival […] [Audio] [Original post on venetianstories.com]

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/116045745967832142 Is this a US thing? I live in Italy, and it doesn't make much sense.

A tale of pirates, maidens, box-makers, oranges, and ancient promises being kept for centuries, but others not so much. [Audio] [Original post on venetianstories.com]

**Nobile al Ridotto — Nobleman at the Ridotto — Grevembroch 1-91** This painting depicts a Venetian nobleman checking in to the _Ridotto_ , the official gambling house of the city, where only noblemen and foreigners could play, and everybody was […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

#superbowl of Athena

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

This is how our doggies, Stella (15) and Giubba (~16), prepare for the night. They value being comfortable. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

**Mascare — Masks — Grevembroch 3-92** This painting depicts a couple dressed in the Venetian _bauta_ costume, used during the carnival, and also at many other occasions. The _bauta_ was a masquerade costume, consisting of a white mask with a beak […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

**Facchini — Labourers — Grevembroch 3-120** _Theriac_ was considered a kind of wonder medicine, and an antidote for most poisons. It required over sixty ingredients, and it was one of the prime products of the many pharmacies in Venice in the 1600s […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

**Beheading bulls** Lent, leading up to Easter, is a period of abstinence and repentance. Forty days, where the basic rule is that if it's fun, it's probably not allowed. Carnival originated, at least in part, as a reaction to the meagre forty days […] [Original post on venetianstories.com]

Candlemas in the Republic of Venice. A tale of pirates, maidens, box-makers, oranges, and ancient promises being kept for centuries, but others not so much. https://venetianstories.com/podcast/episode-24-festa-delle-marie/

**Coniatore di Moneta — Minter of Coins — Grevembroch 2-162** This painting depicts a Venetian moneyer, working in the _Zecca_ of the Republic of Venice, in the process of hammering out a coin. As a merchant nation, stable and sufficient coinage was […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

**Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare — Sansovino** _Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare_ (1581), by _Francesco Sansovino_ , is one of the best known early modern descriptions of Venice, for an Italian and foreign public. The full title is […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"

Pretti’s name was known to federal agents, according to a source Does anyone believe the second violent encounter was a mere coincidence? Bovino was behind this.

**Fabricatore di Teriaca — Producer of Theriac — Grevembroch 3-127** _Theriac_ was an important product for many apothecaries in Venice, and indeed and important part of the economy of the city. The production and trade in _theriac_ was therefore […] [Original post on historywalksvenice.com]

I've moved instance, so here's my #introduction. Currently I do History Walks in Venice, where I live. I ran a kayaking business in Venice for over ten years. I worked in IT for some time, mostly sysadm, web, lots of Perl, Linux, SQL. I once tried academia but it didn't make me happy […]