A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich

A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich

Tells the story of Venice of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the busiest and powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797.

Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done * Sunday Times *
As a historian Norwich knows what mattersAs a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history -- Hugh Trevor-Roper
The standard Venetian history in English -- Jan Morris * The Times *
Will become the standard English work of Venetian history * Financial Times *

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut. In 1964 he resigned from the service to write. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice and the Byzantine Empire. He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries on television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.

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ISBN 13	9780241953044
ISBN 10	0241953049
Title	A History of Venice
Author	John Julius Norwich
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2012-10-04
Number of pages	736
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