Book
Venice : pure city
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
Physical Description
403 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Notes
"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.
Contents
- pt. 1. City from the sea
- Origins
- Water, water everywhere
- Mirror, mirror
- pt. 2. The city of St. Mark
- The saint comes
- Refuge
- Against nature
- Stones of Venice
- pt. 3. Ship of state
- "Let it be everlasting"
- The chosen people
- The prison house
- Secrets
- Chronicles
- pt. 4. Republic of commerce
- The merchants of Venice
- The endless drama
- Wheels within wheels
- pt. 5. Empire of trade
- The lion city
- Cities in collision
- A call to arms
- pt. 6. Timeless city
- Bells and gondolas
- Iustitia
- Against the Turks
- pt. 7. The living city
- The body and the building
- Learning and language
- Colour and light
- Pilgrims and tourists
- pt. 8. The art of life
- Hurrah for Carnival
- A divine art
- The eternal feminine
- What to eat?
- pt. 9. Sacred city
- Divine and infernal
- Of belief
- pt. 10. The shadows of history
- Decline and fall?
- Death in Venice
- pt. 11. City of myth
- The map unrolls
- The huddled family
- Moon and night
- While the music lasts
- A Venetian chronology.