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Two witnesses to a collapsing world: Zaguri, Casanova and the end of the Serenissima

As Europe is swept by revolutions and conquests, Pietro Zaguri and Giacomo Casanova witness, from two distant places, the slow dissolution of the Republic of Venice.

Pietro Zaguri author and architect: art, poetry and projects in eighteenth-century Venice

Pietro Zaguri’s literary and architectural works: poems, comedies, the façade of San Maurizio, projects for La Fenice, and his Rococo taste.

The friendship between Giacomo Casanova and Pietro Zaguri: a unique correspondence in eighteenth-century Venice

A journey through the correspondence between Casanova and Pietro Zaguri: twenty years of friendship, letters, irony and Venetian life in the heart of the 18th century.