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Venice: Pure CityThey are tireless in their work, but there is no obvious coercion exercised upon them other than the search for the common good. There are no civil wars. In The Feminine Monarchy or the History of the Bees, published in 1609, Charles Butler named certain characteristics of the bees; they were profitable, laborious, loyal, swift, nimble, bold, and cunning. All of those qualities have also been ascribed to the Venetian people. Pliny the Elder remarked that bees are bee-like because БЂњthey recognise only what is in the common interest.БЂ«That is also the key to the understanding of Venetian society. We may also adduce the nature of Venice from Bee WilsonБЂ™s The Hive, in which she states that the beehive БЂњis a place where the world of nature and the world of artifice collapse into each other, which is why it is so mysterious.БЂ«This is also the mystery of the city. What is that common good for which the people of Venice strive? It might be called the necessity of survival itself, the continuation of being. There need be no other goal than the maintenance and preservation of life itself ...» |
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