Denis E. Cosgrove
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LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles. Author of The Palladian Landscape.
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Venice, city, major seaport, and capital of both the provincia (province) of Venezia and the regione (region) of Veneto, northern Italy. An island city, it was once the centre of a maritime republic. It was the greatest seaport in late medieval Europe and the continent’s commercial and cultural…
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