A History Of Venice
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A History Of Venice
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Author : John Julius Norwich
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-07-03
A History Of Venice written by John Julius Norwich and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-03 with History categories.
'Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done' Sunday Times 'Will become the standard English work of Venetian history' Financial Times ___________________ Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797. Rich in fascinating historical detail, populated by extraordinary characters and packed with a wealth of incident and intrigue, this is a brilliant testament to a great city - and a great and gripping read. ___________________ 'The standard Venetian history in English' The Times 'Norwich has the gift of historical perspective, as well as clarity and wit. Few can tell a good story better than he' Spectator
St Mark S Rest
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Author : John Ruskin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
St Mark S Rest written by John Ruskin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Art categories.
A Brief History Of Venice
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Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-02-07
A Brief History Of Venice written by Elizabeth Horodowich and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with History categories.
In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
Venice Reconsidered
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Author : John Jeffries Martin
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-02
Venice Reconsidered written by John Jeffries Martin and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02 with History categories.
Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
History Of Venice Books V Viii
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Author : Pietro Bembo
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007
History Of Venice Books V Viii written by Pietro Bembo and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian. Named official historian of Venice in 1529, Bembo began to compose in Latin his continuation of the city's history in 12 books, covering the years from 1487-1513.
A History Of Venice
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Author : Alethea Wiel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A History Of Venice written by Alethea Wiel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Venice (Italy) categories.
Italian Venice
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Author : R. J. B. Bosworth
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-28
Italian Venice written by R. J. B. Bosworth and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-28 with History categories.
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the “Disneylandification” of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes—the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice’s history but its meanings, and how the city’s past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.
Venice And History
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Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Venice And History written by Frederic Chapin Lane and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with History categories.
Originally published in 1966. This book collects papers and essays written by historian Frederic C. Lane, who specialized in medieval Venetian history.
Venice A Maritime Republic
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Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1973-11
Venice A Maritime Republic written by Frederic Chapin Lane and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-11 with History categories.
A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.
The Book Of Venice
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Author : Elisabetta Baldisserotto
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2021-05-27
The Book Of Venice written by Elisabetta Baldisserotto and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Fiction categories.
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.