Venice was home to a number of scuole that were not schools at all but old confraternities similar, minus their religious affiliation, to today's Freemasons, Rotarians, Elks, or Lions.
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The scuoles of Venice were similar confraternities to the ones we have today.
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Venetian scoules were vastly different than today's fraternal society, such as the Freemason's or Lions.