Venice: pure city

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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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Title Statements

Full title :Venice : pure city / Peter Ackroyd.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.
Edition:1st U.S. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

Notes

"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385531528, 0385531524
oclc:ocn515405296
LC Classification:DG672.2
Dewey Decimal:945/.311

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.

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Civilization History Italy -- Venice Manners and customs Social conditions Venice (Italy) -- Civilization Venice (Italy) -- History Venice (Italy) -- Social conditions Venice (Italy) -- Social life and custo… Venise (Italie) -- Civilisation Venise (Italie) -- Conditions sociales Venise (Italie) -- Histoire