Venice, A Travellers Companion by John Julius Norwich
Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it...', whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly...Propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a mediaeval walk.' Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has produced a dazzling anthology from the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others. From the days of the sixth century, when lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds' in huts built on heaps of osiers, to the Venice of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers - the city's many different guises are all portrayed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them.
'another excellent volume in the Travellers' Companion series' - Times; 'a brilliant historical anthology.. which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author's witty selection of writings' - Harriet Crawley, Spectator
John Julius Norwich is the author of A History of Venice, Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund and a lecturer on the art and architecture of Venice.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841195315 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841195316 |
| Title | Venice, A Travellers Companion |
| Author | John Julius Norwich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2002-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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