I stole it from you, oh Siren of the Sausage! And even more amusing is how much Venice is showing up in my life. Went to a music recital, not knowing it was 16th century Venitian music. Investigated the first "paperbacks" (books meant to be read outside a library or church)--Venetian, AND they invented the italic script so that it would be prettier and smaller type and easier to read than that German Gothic stuff. Amazing!