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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Ackroyd, Peter, |d 1949- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Venice : |b pure city / |c Peter Ackroyd. |
| 250 | |a 1st U.S. ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a 403 p., [32] p. of plates : |b ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Venice (Italy) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Venice (Italy) |x Social conditions. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Venice (Italy) |x Social life and customs. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Venice (Italy) |x Civilization. | |
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