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I Il y a bien longtemps, et si je ne me trompe, c'était au mois d'août de l'année 1354; le brave amiral génois, Paganino Doria, battit les Vénitiens, et surprit leur ville de Parinzo. Ses galères bien armées couraient des bordées dans le golfe de Venise, semblables à des bêtes de proie affamées qui vont et viennent pour mieux happer leur victime. Le peuple et la seigneurie de Venise étaient saisis d'un effroi mortel. Tous les hommes en état de marcher prirent l'épée ou la rame. Les troupes se rassemblèrent dans le port Saint-Nicolo. Les navires, les arbres, les pierres, tout fut employé pour encombrer la rade et empêcher l'approche de l'ennemi; et tandis que le bruit des armes retentissait au milieu du tumulte, que les masses qu'on lançait à la mer réveillaient tous les échos du voisinage, on voyait sur le Rialto les agents de la seigneurie, le front chargé de sueur, le visage défait, offrir d'une voix tremblante des obligations à gros intérêts en échange de l'argent; car la république était dans un état de détresse extrême.
Ernst Theodor Wilhem Hoffmann, connu dès ses premières publications comme E.T.A. Hoffmann1, né le 24 janvier 1776, en Prusse-Orientale, et mort le 25 juin 1822 à Berlin (à l'âge de 46 ans), est un écrivain romantique et un compositeur, également dessinateur et juriste allemand. Il prit plus tard le nom de Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman par admiration pour Mozart. Juriste de formation, Hoffmann sert dans l'administration prussienne de 1796 à 1806, puis de 1814 à sa mort. Également dessinateur et peintre, son indépendance d'esprit et son goût de la satire lui valent à plusieurs reprises de sérieux ennuis auprès de ses supérieurs hiérarchiques, qu'il n'hésite pas à caricaturer. C'est surtout en raison de son activité littéraire que Hoffmann est célèbre. Connu sous le nom d' E. T. A. Hoffmann, il est l'auteur de nombreux contes (Märchen en allemand) comme L'Homme au sable, Les Mines de Falun ou Casse-Noisette et le Roi des souris et de plusieurs romans, dont son oeuvre principale Le Chat Murr. Il devient alors, dès les années 1820, l'une des illustres figures du romantisme allemand et il inspire de nombreux artistes, en Europe comme dans le reste du monde. Par exemple, Jacques Offenbach écrit l'opérafantastique en cinq actes Les Contes d'Hoffmann en s'inspirant de l'univers du romantique allemand.
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