Venice : pure city
Book |
1st U.S. ed. |
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
New York :
c2009.
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About
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.
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Details
- ISBN: 0385531524 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780385531528 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 403 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)print
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
- General Note: "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.