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The appointment. Venice 19 March 1914

The appointment. Venice 19 March 1914

Published Nov 23, 2022 Updated Nov 23, 2022 Education and Training
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The appointment. Venice 19 March 1914

“If the clouds that came to crash through the night had brought their rain in the light of day, there would not have been a sky to see and all of this, perhaps, might never had happened. But in Venice, on Thursday March 19 th 1914, it was sunny”.

 

 

On March 19 th , 1914, shortly after 5 pm, a vaporetto from the city of Venice’s navigation lines with 63 people on board, heading from the Lido towards the city centre, collided with a torpedo boat and sank in less than a minute. The accident left 16 dead and 34 wounded, and provoked a global wave of horror first and sympathy after: the news was picked up by the international press, as far Peru and New Zealand. For a full week Venice lived smothered under a mantle of mourning as the ceaseless work of reporters presented the

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