The Venice Chronicles
Author | : Enrico Casarosa |
Publisher | : Adhouse Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : 9780981845500 |
Cartoonist Enrico Casarosa chronicles his trip to Venice, Italy.
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Author | : Enrico Casarosa |
Publisher | : Adhouse Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : 9780981845500 |
Cartoonist Enrico Casarosa chronicles his trip to Venice, Italy.
Author | : Philip Gwynne Jones |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781492162582 |
Philip and Caroline Jones, two IT workers from Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy. Their response was to give up everything, and to move to Venice in search of a new life. The Venice Project chronicles their move to Italy, and their experiences of their first year in La Serenissima. A hilarious and informative journey through the trials and practicalities of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary city; for lovers of Italy and Venice, and all those who have had a dream. The Venice Project: it's never too late to change your life...
Author | : Roger Crowley |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0679644261 |
“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author | : Pietro Bembo |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Venice (Italy) |
ISBN | : 9780674022843 |
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was a celebrated Latin stylist and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love influenced the development of the literary vernacular, as did his Prose della volgar lingua (1525). From 1513 to 1521 he served Pope Leo X as Latin secretary and became known as the leading advocate of Ciceronian Latin in Europe and of the Tuscan dialect within Italy. He was named official historian of Venice in 1529 and began to compose in Latin his continuation of the city's history in twelve books, covering the years from 1487 to 1513. Although the work chronicles internal politics and events, much of it is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states (France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, and the papacy) and with the Turks in the East.
Author | : Toni Sepeda |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009-04-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0802199844 |
An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.
Author | : Pietro Bembo |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674022867 |
Much of Bembo's work is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states and with the Turks in the East. The History of Venice was published after his death, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition, completed by this third volume, makes it available for the first time in English translation.
Author | : Frederic Chapin Lane |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1973-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801814600 |
A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.
Author | : Thomas Jonglez |
Publisher | : Editions Jonglez |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9782361952266 |
Five years of research were needed to conceive this exceptional guide, which will allow all lovers of Venice and the Venetians themselves to start exploring the most extraordinary city in the world, away from the beaten path.
Author | : Andrea Di Robilant |
Publisher | : HarperPerennial |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9781841155425 |
In the attic of their old family palazzo on the Grand Canal, Andrea di Robilant's father had found the love letters of their ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of the last great Venetian statesmen, to a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne. Some of the letters were written in code, which di Robilant and his father cracked to reveal an illicit passion: Giustiniana was not of the elite ruling class and would never have been considered a suitable match for Andrea. But their acts of devotion were startlingly brazen. As their courtship unfolds, they plot elaborate marriage schemes that offend everyone, arrange secret trysts in borrowed rooms, cause trouble for the servants who must ferry their forbidden correspondence, and even weather an unwanted pregnancy, from which Giustiniana, with her wits and ingenuity and some crucial assistance from the infamous Casanova, emerges unscathed.
Author | : David M. Perry |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271066830 |
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.