so far i just know that they were powerful rich people
because they were good at trading
they were well respected in Othello
They are people from Venice, a city in Italy built in a swamp at the north end of the Adriatic Sea. Everyone in Othello except Othello and Cassio is a Venetian.
He is Othello's ensign or ancient, the soldier who carries the commander's flag, and acts as a sort of servant. He is the one who plants the idea in Othello's head that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio (even though it is untrue) and helps plant evidence to prove this (namely the handkerchief). He advances a number of reasons why he does this: because he was jealous of Cassio's promotion to a command rank, because he thought Othello may have slept with his wife, or because Othello and Cassio were both upstarts, neither of them Venetians by birth and both of them getting commissions through merit.
The duke in the beginning of Act one scene three when he says "Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman" up until then most of the characters call him "the moor". This is important because that he is first acknowledged by name in a military setting suggests he is only accepted by the venetians because he is a useful commander.
The Venetians in Shakespeare's time are the same thing as the Venetians are today--people who live in Venice. Only in Shakespeare's time, Venice was a powerful independent country with a lot of overseas holdings, especially in Dalmatia and the Greek islands, and was the main resistance to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
He was shocked, for a number of reasons, when he saw Othello publicly strike Desdemona. First of all, it was totally different from the kind of behaviour that the Venetians had come to expect from Othello. Secondly, it was shocking and outrageous that any man should strike his wife. But it was even more shocking that he should do it in public. And it was even more shocking than that when, as it happened, the wife in question was the daughter of an important man, a senator. Lodovico says that if he told the people in Venice what he saw, they would not believe it.
Othello was a Moorish mercenary general under the pay of the Venetians.
They are people from Venice, a city in Italy built in a swamp at the north end of the Adriatic Sea. Everyone in Othello except Othello and Cassio is a Venetian.
He is Othello's ensign or ancient, the soldier who carries the commander's flag, and acts as a sort of servant. He is the one who plants the idea in Othello's head that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio (even though it is untrue) and helps plant evidence to prove this (namely the handkerchief). He advances a number of reasons why he does this: because he was jealous of Cassio's promotion to a command rank, because he thought Othello may have slept with his wife, or because Othello and Cassio were both upstarts, neither of them Venetians by birth and both of them getting commissions through merit.
Venetians Movement was created in 2006.
Forum of the Venetians was created in 2008.
Party of the Venetians was created in 2010.
The Venetians - Australian band - was created in 1982.
The duke in the beginning of Act one scene three when he says "Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman" up until then most of the characters call him "the moor". This is important because that he is first acknowledged by name in a military setting suggests he is only accepted by the venetians because he is a useful commander.
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the venetians
The Venetians in Shakespeare's time are the same thing as the Venetians are today--people who live in Venice. Only in Shakespeare's time, Venice was a powerful independent country with a lot of overseas holdings, especially in Dalmatia and the Greek islands, and was the main resistance to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
He was shocked, for a number of reasons, when he saw Othello publicly strike Desdemona. First of all, it was totally different from the kind of behaviour that the Venetians had come to expect from Othello. Secondly, it was shocking and outrageous that any man should strike his wife. But it was even more shocking that he should do it in public. And it was even more shocking than that when, as it happened, the wife in question was the daughter of an important man, a senator. Lodovico says that if he told the people in Venice what he saw, they would not believe it.