Veneto · Skopia

Art

16held here

Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci

1492★ 8.7

The Tempest

1508★ 8.6

The Assumption of the Virgin

1518★ 8.4

Lamentation

1305★ 8.3

The Crucifixion of Christ

Jacopo Tintoretto

1565★ 7.8

The Arrest of Christ (Kiss of Judas)

1305★ 7.6

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Quotes

11by people from here

Autobiography and memoir

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 6.0

Autobiography and memoir

Whatever St. Augustine may say, human creatures would not perform the work of generation if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 5.2

Autobiography and memoir

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite to mine, I have always loved it and done all I could to make myself loved by it.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 4.4

What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

Carmina · 54 BC

★ 3.7

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Books

3set here

Othello

William Shakespeare

1603★ 9.0

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

1597★ 8.1

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1598★ 7.2