In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal which Contarini demolished, and in 1421 he began to build the Ca d'Oro, his "House of Gold". This is a history of the buildin…
In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal. Contarini demolished the old palace and, in 1421, began to build the Ca d'Oro, his 'House of Gold'. This book tells the hist…
Margaret King shows what the death of a little boy named Valerio Marcello over five hundred years ago can tell us about his time. This child, scion of a family of power and privilege at Venice's time of greatness, left his father in a state of despair so profound and so public t…
Studies on the Levantine trade in the Middle Ages
Lonely planet guide to Venice and the Veneto.
On a cold Venetian night just before Christmas, an African street vendor is killed in a scuffle. The only witnesses are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death. Arriving on the scene, Commissario Brunetti wonders why anyone would kill a "vu cumpra," a…
