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The extraordinary life of the ugliest Venetian of the 20th century

Luisa Casati was an Italian heiress, muse and patron of the arts in early 20th-century Europe – Corbis Historical As another peach Bellini-tinted sunset begins to melt the stones and bricks of Venice into light and water, my position, reclined as royally as I can in a black-painted gondola, feels like I’m missing a crucial… Read More »