Sleep Story for Grown Ups | An Evening at a Venetian Apothecary | Renaissance Venice

What was inside a Venetian apothecary, and what did it sell after dark? A boring history story for sleep - relaxing storytelling for adults, softly narrated, with nothing sudden or startling in it. Fall asleep to an Evening at a Venetian Apothecary. A cozy sleep story for grown-ups: 48 minutes of calm history, softly narrated, with nothing sudden or startling in it. No mid-roll ads: we don't place any in these videos. A shop under the sign of a golden head in Venice, around sixteen hundred: four hundred painted jars, a still in the back room, a locked cupboard with one key, and a ledger holding most of the street's debts. The spice trade that built the city is quietly ending, and nobody in the shop uses the word. Chapters: 0:00:00 A Shop With a Sign of a Golden Head 0:02:38 The Jars 0:05:42 What Is Actually In Them 0:08:27 The Smell 0:10:26 The Spice Road Ends Here 0:13:11 The Master 0:15:59 The Boy 0:18:12 Morning 0:20:55 The Back Room 0:22:58 Distilling 0:25:12 The Great Compound 0:27:52 Poisons 0:30:05 The Guild 0:32:16 Afternoon 0:34:20 The Water Question 0:36:30 The Physician's Note 0:38:41 Evening 0:40:50 The Storeroom at Night 0:43:11 Sixty Years of One Family 0:45:19 Water and Stone Sources: Richard Palmer, studies of the Venetian pharmacy and the College of Physicians David Gentilcore, Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006) Patrick Wallis, work on the early modern drug trade Frederic C. Lane, Venice: A Maritime Republic (1973) Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994) The narration is slow and clearly spoken with English captions on, so this also works if you are learning English by listening. The pictures are painted stills that drift slowly - nothing flashes and nothing cuts. If you like long sleep stories, calm history documentaries or bedtime stories for adults, subscribe to Sleepy Story Nights - a new story every week. Original script; artwork and narration produced with AI assistance under human direction.