"As well as the well-known inventory written by Maria Pia Pedani Fabris in 1994, I "Documenti Turchi" dell'Archivio di Stato di Venezia, this book is based on the work by Alessio Bombaci from the 1940s. Pedani's work is an academic inventory of the documents in the archives Lett…
Krimi. I Venedig findes en gadesælger myrdet, og kriminalkommissær Brunetti kommer på en hård opgave med at opklare mordet. Sporene fører til indvandrermiljøet, men nogen lægger hindringer i vejen for ham, så opklaringen bliver en sej omgang
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Venice is viewed from a new perspective, offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when indust…
The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including politica…
By profiling some of the most celebrated personalities of European history, including Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Petrarch, Vivaldi and Casanova, this vibrant history of the Republic of Venice reveals how it became the first great economic, cultural and naval power of the moder…
