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Author:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

Title:

Venice : pure city / Peter Ackroyd.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

403 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Venice (Italy)--History.
Venice (Italy)--Social conditions.
Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs.
Venice (Italy)--Civilization.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0385531524 (alk. paper)
9780385531528 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)515405296

LCCN:

2010010350

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