Venice : pure city /

Venice : pure city /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2009]
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Venice (Italy) > History.
Venice (Italy) > Social conditions.
Venice (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Venice (Italy) > Civilization.
Description
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.
Item Description:"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-386) and index.
ISBN:9780385531528 (alk. paper)
0385531524 (alk. paper)