Featuring fifty masterworks by Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, this stunning book examines the brilliant painters who transformed the art of Renaissance Venice. Among the singu
Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak o
The vast literature about Richard Wagner and his works includes a surprising number of fictional works, including novels, plays, satires, and an opera. Many of these deal with his last years and his d
Romance and mystery merge in this suspenseful tale inspired by Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.?Venice in 1602 is a vibrant and charming city. Yet beneath this splendor lies a sinister underworld
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be a
Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers—a gift aided by the secret “birthing spoons” she designed. But when a count implores her to attend
A dozen essays reproduced from their original publication between 1975 and 2003 reflect King's interlocking scholarly interests, crossing boundaries of region and gender and the subdisciplines of inte
The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a
A Traveller's History of Venice presents a concise and readable overview from the fifth century to the perils of flood and tourism that face Venice today.The main theme is the unique place that Venice
In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches
Fletcher (geography, U. of Cambridge) and Da Mosto present results from a research project about the possible flooding of Venice at Cambridge University's Coastal Research Unit and CORILA and a confer
"Illustrated collection of scholarly essays that provides commentary on both the history of Venice and the bequest of paintings it left to the world"--Provided by publisher.
This book explores the day-to-day 'lived experience' of fascism in Venice during the 1930s, charting the attempts of the fascist regime to infiltrate and reshape Venetians' everyday lives and their re
Professor Otto Demus's work on Byzantine art represents one of the great original contributions to the subject made in this century. His early studies in the 1930s on the "mosaics of Greece were follo
‧ Waterproof ‧ Tear-Resistant ‧ Travel MapIn addition to the easy-to-read map on the front, the back includes: - Regional map - Points of interest - Airport diagram - Vaporetto (water bus) map - Inset
Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were
