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To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

Peggy Guggenheim

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Peggy Guggenheim
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1979
Died: January 1
Art Collector
Art Dealer
Patron Of The Arts
Socialite
New York City
New York
Marguerite Guggenheim
Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim
Marguerite Guggenheim Ernst
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Intrigue
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Venice
Gondolas
Alive
Deaths
Revenged
Passion
Adultery
Lute
Night
Gambling
Abduction
True
Passions
Unaccountable
Past
Romance
Reconstruct
Singing
Intrigues

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