Venice by Jonathan Keates
The author leads the reader along a sequence of Venetian trails, including familiar landmarks like the great Tintoretto-hung Scuola di San Rocco or the mosaics of Torcello, as well as the more secret haunts of ghosts, mysteries, scandals and superstitions. Venice, under his guidance, is revealed as a place of discovery, a living city at the heart of an open-air museum.Jonathan Keates is a renowned and award-winning biographer, novelist, and travel writer, as well as the author of the Handel and Purcell biographies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the head of the Venice in Peril fund. For his collection of short stories Allegro Postillions (1983), he received both the James Tait Black Memorial Award and the Hawthornden Prize. Jonathan Keates writes for a variety of periodicals, including the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement in the United Kingdom.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781856194495 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856194493 |
| Title | Venice |
| Author | Jonathan Keates |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
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