Venice : pure city
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
eBook, English, ©2009
1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, ©2009
History
1 online resource (403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
9780385531535, 0385531532
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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