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Giustina Renier Michiel

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76:, Venetian Venus. It was during this trip that Giustina gave birth to a daughter in 1776, Elena. They had two other daughters who were born over the course of the next two years, Cecilia and Chiara (died at age ten). She was often left alone with her children while her husband traveled and so she was unhappy and ended up getting a divorce from her husband on 4 August 1784 Their divorce left her free to enjoy an active social life, which had been something her husband did not approve of. 123:. She built connections between people, introducing scholars to one another, and promoted socializing and intellectual conversation. Her salon was not all about intense intellect; it had a good stream of recreational pleasure. Vittorio Malamani had said that her guests often arrived after midnight once the theater finished in order to discuss the works that they had just seen and to play "society games." 164:. The book was heavily researched and was an extensive look into Venice’s festivals, myths and public rituals. This collection of Venetian traditions was one way in which she tried defending Venice and its history. "She seemed to make it her duty to prevent anything from disturbing the ghost of the defunct republic." 17: 83:, a dancer, as a dogaressa, Giustina Renier Michiel had to step in. She served as first lady in all official ceremonies when necessary between the years of 1779 and 1789 while also pursuing her intellectual passions and hosting a literary 55:
at the age of three. She was brought back to Venice at the age of nine and placed in a fashionable boarding school kept by a Frenchwoman. She was considered a bookworm and a woman with an independent mind.
180:. She wrote many letters, many of which went to her niece Adriana Zannini, Marc Antonio Michiel, Contessa Marina Beneti Cicciaponi and many others. In her later years she had to wear an 444:
Woman's record, or, Sketches of all distinguished women: from the creation to A.D. 1854 : arranged in four eras : with selections from female writers of every age
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When she came back from her yearlong stay in Rome, her paternal grandfather, Paolo Renier, was elected doge. Because the people refused to accept his wife
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for she became deaf. On April 6, 1832 she died surrounded by her friends and grandchildren at the age of 77, and she was interred at
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Venice, Its Individual Growth From the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of the Republic: by Pompeo Molmenti; Tr. by Horatio F. Brown
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Giustina Renier Michiel’s salon was considered one of the two most in vogue salons of Venice, the other being that of her friend
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Engendering the Republic of Letters: Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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At the age of 20 she married Marc Antonio Michiel on 25 October 1775. They followed her father to
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invaded Venice, she closed her salon and pursued the study of botany and the publishing of her
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She eventually reopened her salon and held it thus till her death. She was a patroness of
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Fletcher, Jennifer (October 1981). "Marcantonio Michiel, 'che ha veduto assai'".
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Pellegrini, Giuliano (December 1957). "The Roman Plays of Shakespeare in Italy".
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Venice, the Place And the People: Salve Venetia; Gleanings From Venetian History
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During this time she also started her monumental work published in six volumes,
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translations for the next ten years. She translated
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Index


Venice
Paolo Renier
Doge of Venice
Ludovico
Treviso
Rome
Pope Pius VI
Margherita Delmaz
salon
Isabella Teotochi
Ippolito Pindemonte
Marina Querini Benzon
Ugo Foscolo
Giustiniana Wynne
Madame de Staël
Lord Byron
Napoleon
Shakespeare
Othello
Macbeth
Coriolanus
Canova
Chateaubriand
ear trumpet
the San Michele cemetery
Isola di San Michele


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