the fashionable architects in italy s competing city states particularly in venice milan florence and pisa became some of the top earners of the renaissance. no longer nameless as they had been in the middle ages they were celebrated and pampered elites. venetian noblemen spend fortunes on palaces in the new style. architect antonio continue designed and built the bridge of sighs one of the most photographed motifs in the world. this new style of building became popular outside italy the city will in syria is a masterpiece of the late renaissance one hundred years earlier the sculptor and builder until an eastern man had built one of the most picturesque examples of italian renaissance village cern town hall in switzerland.
often even the powerful men of state didn t know what dubious channels someone had been denounced it was an adult morning in july seventeenth fifty five when the republic s inquisitors trapped the most famous victim a young writer was accused of treason he was none other than jack ahmed casanova who had long been rumored to be seducing young girls the sentence was five years imprisonment and the prison he was to be sent to was even then one of the world s most notorious the lead cells of the ballots counted. anyone who ended up behind these bans usually had little hope of regaining freedom and so the bridge leading to the sounds of and really lived up to its name as the bridge of sighs but covered over was not to leave freedom behind for ever when he crossed the bridge of sighs he succeeded in constructing a door with which he dug a hole through his cell wall his escape made him famous overnight and his bravado
strict constructionists means you re born here. it s simple. it s in the constitution. why is trump going to give him a fly on that? i think this is not something ted cruz hasn t heard about during his senate run and during his political life. i think ted cruz will be prepared for that. it s not relevant until you run for president. that is where there is a prescription there, you should be natural born. i think you are going to hear ted cruz talk about the fact he is naturalized here in america if that does come up from donald trump tomorrow night. thank you so much. i love that picture of the bridge of sighs out there. i first saw it with you out there, katy, i thought she s in italy. there it is, the bridge of sighs. from your lips to god s ears, chris matthews. this is our experience together. thank you. it s a pretty place. too bad you are not in the real place. i m joined by john ralston
for practicing magic. they say when he used bedsheet ropes to get out of this prison, his getaway vehicle was a gondola, but nobody knows for sure. he escaped from the bridge of sighs. that s what i heard. he was the only one. i heard maybe he didn t escape, maybe he was a spy and they let him out. we live with the legend, you know. it s good to say he escaped. marco polo lived right here? this one. and maybe marco polo didn t bring italy s first noodles back from china. there s a reason why we re famous for spaghetti, you know? pasta. but why let facts get in the way of a good story. this place lulls you into literally going with the flow. and it s easy to forget that this is a working city. buon giorno. see, even the garbage, even
gambler and raconteur locked up for practicing magic. they say when he used bedsheet robes to get out of this prison, his getaway vehicle was a gondola, but nobody knows for sure. he escaped from the bridge of sighs. that s what i heard. he was the only one. i heard maybe he didn t escape, maybe he was a spy and they let him out. we live with the legend, you know. it s good to say he escaped. marco polo lived right here? this one. and maybe marco polo didn t bring italy s first noodles back from china. there s a reason why we re famous for spaghetti, you know? pasta. but why let facts get in the way of a good story. this place lulls you into literally going with the flow. and it s easy to forget that this is a working city. buon giorno. see, even the garbage, even