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The Carnival of Venice Is First Recorded
Venice · Italy · Cultural · Medieval World
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The yearly celebration grew into a season of masked licence in which anonymity dissolved rank and the city turned into theatre.
Suppressed under Napoleon and revived in 1979, its masks — bauta, moretta, plague doctor — remain emblems of Venice.
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