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Showing posts with label 1816. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1816. Show all posts

19 March 2020

Filippo Mazzei – physician

Liberal thinker was praised by John F Kennedy Filippo Mazzei contributed to the wording of America's Declaration of Independence ...

20 February 2018

The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome

Rival fans wreck debut of Rossini’s most famous opera A typical costume for the main character, the barber Figaro The Barber of ...

13 February 2016

Fire at Teatro di San Carlo

Royal theatre reopens quickly after blaze The damage wreaked by the 1816 fire, captured in a painting by an unknown artist Fir...

10 November 2015

Lord Byron in Venice

Romantic English poet finds renewed inspiration Aristocratic English poet Lord Byron and his friend, John Cam Hobhouse, arrived in Ven...

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