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mitted to return to Venice, he arranged dangerous liaisons for wealthy clients, even while
working as a spy for the Inquisition. Forced to flee again, he spent his final years (1785-98)
as librarian for an aristocrat in Bohemia, his death coinciding with the death of the Venetian
Republic.
Figure 6.3. Carnival of Venice,
artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg
THE REPUBLIC DIES
In 1797 Napoleon's armies swept into Venice without a shot being fired. The emperor de-
creed the end of the Venetian Republic. Napoleon then lived briefly in Venice and pro-
nounced St. Mark's Square the finest drawing room in Europe. He traded Venice to Austria
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