Italy On This Day

Soldiers restored calm but became unpopular with the Venetians  The French troops of Napoleon, pictured arriving in St Mark's square, lo...

Penultimate head of Most Serene Republic The 1779 portrait of Renier, by Lodovico Gallina, hangs in Venice's Museo Correr Paolo Renier, ...

Surrender to Napoleon ended La Serenissima’s independence  Ludovico Manin was Doge of Venice from 1789 until its fall in 1797  The man who w...

Peace treaty saw Venice given away to Austria Venice in the days of Austrian rule, as depicted by the 18th century artist Canaletto ...