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An edition of Venice (2009)

Venice

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1st U.S. ed.
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A glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city, embracing facts and romance, history and artists, carnival masks and leper colonies, wars and sieges, and scandals and seductions.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
403

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Venice: pure city
2009, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
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Table of Contents

City from the sea
Origins
Water, water everywhere
Mirror, mirror
The city of St. Mark
The saint comes
Refuge
Against nature
Stones of Venice
Ship of state
"Let it be everlasting"
The chosen people
The prison house
Secrets
Chronicles
Republic of commerce
The merchants of Venice
The endless drama
Wheels within wheels
Empire of trade
The lion city
Cities in collision
A call to arms
Timeless city
Bells and gondolas
Iustitia
Against the Turks
The living city
The body and the building
Learning and language
Colour and light
Pilgrims and tourists
The art of life
Hurrah for Carnival
A divine art
The eternal feminine
What to eat?
Sacred city
Divine and infernal
Of belief
The shadows of history
Decline and fall?
Death in Venice
City of myth
The map unrolls
The huddled family
Moon and night
While the music lasts
A Venetian chronology.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
945/.311
Library of Congress
DG672.2 .A25 2009b

The Physical Object

Pagination
403 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
403

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24930258M
Internet Archive
venicepurecity00ackr
ISBN 10
0385531524
ISBN 13
9780385531528
LCCN
2010010350
OCLC/WorldCat
515405296

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