Venice Abandoned; Is This the Place Again?

Venice Abandoned; Is This the Place Again?
Author: Vinicio Tassani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre:
ISBN:

Venice today looks like another Venice: a town affected by unknown "presence".It looks so different... the railway station without passengers, deserted "calli" (streets), gondolas stopped at berths, all the "campo" (small square) with no people walking, San Marco square completely empty, no pigeons flying around. None in front of Bridge of Sighs; nobody in Via XXII Marzo, the luxury brand street in Venice; the Caffè Florian, since 1720, never closed one day, not even between the two World Wars, even during the tides, the high water phenomena, the Aqua Granda, never. Now it closes. Rialto's bridge with no people on it's top, shaking their smartphone trying to take the best shot; the famous Fish and Vegetable Market with no desks open. There is a strange and uncomfortable "sound of silence"...

Venice

Venice
Author: Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1893
Genre:
ISBN:

Venice, the Tourist Maze

Venice, the Tourist Maze
Author: Robert C. Davis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520937802

"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed—a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.

Venice

Venice
Author: Dennis. Romano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 805
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190859989

Venice, one of the world's most storied cities, has a long and remarkable history, told here in its full scope from its founding in the early Middle Ages to the present day. A place whose fortunes and livelihoods have been shaped to a large degree by its relationship with water, Venice is seen in Dennis Romano's account as a terrestrial and maritime power, whose religious, social, architectural, economic, and political histories have been determined by its unique geography.

Igdrasil

Igdrasil
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1890
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The journal of the Ruskin Reading Guild. A magazine of literature, art and social philosophy.

Venice

Venice
Author: Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521883598

Following Venice's unique history from its foundation, this book analyzes the city's social, cultural, religious, and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. Joanne M. Ferraro illuminates how Venice's position at the crossroads of Asian, European, and North African exchange networks made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural center.

The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare

The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521470339

The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution provides a thorough introduction to the military and naval history of the years 1492 to 1792, covering the period from the European Renaissance to the revolutionary wars of the late eighteenth century. Detailed colour maps, battle plans, and colour and black-and-white illustrations combine with an authoritative text to illuminate developments in warfare on both land and sea. Particular attention is paid to the effects of European military expansion on the rest of the world including the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Special feature panels are devoted to key events, to the more complicated and intriguing military confrontations, to individual tacticians and to the key topics such as weapons, battle strategies, the rise of naval warfare, and the composition of armies. The book is written by a leading historian of the early modern period.

Venice

Venice
Author: Horatio Forbes Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1893
Genre: Venice (Italy)
ISBN: