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.
Table of 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 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.