Many years later, and years after his return to Venice, in a long deferred revenge for Abbey Chiari's "biting satire," Casanova published a "Roman a Clef" satirizing most of the Venetian nobility, including the Grimanis resulting in his second and final exile from his birthplace.
"In Carpaccio's luminous painting areligious procession crosses the Rialto bridge,but a shaggy dog out for a gondola ride provides a secular note more typical of Venice. Overlooking the bridge was Europe's busiest money market(in addition to its most celebrated bawdy house.)
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