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Italy is blessed with enlightened and well endowed academies that eagerly seize every opportunity to celebrate their country's genius and geniuses. One of these groups, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, last year published the proceedings from its 1993 international conference on the Barbaro family: Una famiglia veneziana ...