I spent the day looking around Venice at various buildings, one which was probably lived in by the artist Giorgione and one which was lived in by Aldus Manutius (LINK)
My new friend Dimosthenis talked about how these two scholar may have met. There is no evidence that they did meet. However, because Manuzio printed books which were highly likely to have influenced our other new friend Giorgione. We surmised where they could have certainly met (especially as they lived very near each other in Venice). We discussed what they may have talked about. Philosophy, Mathematics etc... Dimosthenis suggested that we could make some pretend images of us being these characters. I said that perhaps we could get some masks made to represent them. Yesterday I came across a shop with a Venetian mask maker that made the masks for the Stanley Kubrick film, 'Eyes wide shut'. I suggested we meet this person and ask him if he would like to collaborate with us on this project. Amazingly this said man, Sergio, was very keen to join in. We agreed to meet next tuesday, and he would choose some masks for us and help us find some costumes. We were overjoyed by this. I had my first Venetian cake, 'a cake for a king'. It tasted like shortbread, very un-king-like actually!
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