Extinguished Countries

Extinguished Countries

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Extinguished Countries episodes

  • Rovinj, batana and the sea
    Rovinj, Croatia, is today a picturesque seaside town that lives essentially off tourism. But a few centuries ago - at the time of the Republic of Venice - it was a hub for fish smuggling. You're in for a story about boats, traditions and music ...
    7 min
  • The origin of italic font style
    Italic font style. We all use it, in our e-mails and in our documents. But do we know why we call it "italic"? The answer is in Venice in the 15th century. We talk about it with Alessandro Marzo Magno, a Venetian writer and author of many books about the Serenissima.
    6 min
  • L'origine dello stile corsivo
    Lo stile corsivo. Lo usiamo tutti, nelle nostre e-mail e nei nostri documenti. Ma sappiamo perché all'estero è detto italics? La risposta è a Venezia a cavallo tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Ne parliamo con Alessandro Marzo Magno, scrittore veneziano e autore di "L’alba dei libri. Quando Venezia ha fatto leggere il mondo" (Garzanti, 2012).
    7 min
  • L'origine du style italique
    Le style italique. On l’utilise tous, dans nos mails et dans nos documents. Mais sait-on pourquoi on l’appelle « italique » ? La réponse est à Venise au XV siècle. Nous en parlons avec Alessandro Marzo Magno, écrivain vénitien et auteur d'une quinzaine de livre sur la Sérénissime.
    6 min

About Extinguished Countries

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Extinguished Countries is the first guidebook series about countries that no longer exist. We don’t follow today’s borders but take you on a journey through former states. We travel transnationally and through time and space, looking for what unites us rather than what divides us. We are launching our first guidebook about the Republic of Venice, in March 2020.