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Venice : pure city

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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.

Contents
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 hou... Read more
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Description
403 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 945 ACK in Adult Non-fiction Available

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