For Egypt, which depended primarily on agriculture, locust plagues and hailstorms would certainly have affected the harvest. Combined with the "red tide" that killed all the fish in the Nile River and the animal plague that caused massive livestock deaths, the people of Egypt probably had a very hard time in the year the Israelites left Egypt.
Food was something humans took for granted every day, but eating during times of world peace and eating amid natural disasters and human-caused calamities were completely different things.
The vampire Giovanni lived on Giudecca Island. If Venice's main island resembled a fish, then Giudecca was like a slightly undersized "plate for holding fish." Transportation here was inconvenient. Without a private boat, once the water bus stopped running, it was difficult to get there, which was terribly inconvenient for tourists who wanted to enjoy Venice's nightlife.
Even counting its several churches, it was hard to find any conspicuous landmark on Giudecca Island. Among Venice's many islands, it was the most unremarkable.
Yet before the twentieth century, it had been the backyard garden of Venice's wealthy. Many palaces and private gardens stood on the island, used for summer retreats, gatherings, and the like.
Paolo Veronese's The Wedding at Cana might have drawn inspiration from the banquets of those rich people.
Beautiful, healthy figures, splendid clothing, glittering architecture, dazzling decorations and tableware—these differed from the orderly, rigorous composition and coloring of religious oil paintings.
He even added Jokers, drunkards, Germans, dwarves, and other rustic commoners to his other paintings. Adding secular elements to religious paintings could get one sent before a religious court. In fact, Paolo Veronese was summoned.
In 1572, Veronese was accused of painting a dog in Feast in the House of Levi, which he had painted for the refectory of Saint Paul's Monastery.