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Podcast: The Thinking Traveller
Episode: Women of Venice - Power, Patronage & Performance
Description: While Venice was a patriarchal society, women nonetheless played vital roles in shaping the city’s political, social and cultural fabric.From patrician marriages that forged alliances among the elite to the quiet influence exerted behind convent and palace walls, what was life really like for women in the Republic of Venice?Their stories span from prominent figures such as Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, to the orphaned girls educated at the Ospedale della Pietà, and even to the ever-present world of prostitution – together offering a nuanced portrait of power and constraint in one of Europ...