A Literary Companion To Venice

A Literary Companion To Venice
Author: Ian Littlewood
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1995-05-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780312131135

Arranged in the form of seven detailed walking tours through Venice, this literary companion provides an illuminating guide to the streets, palaces, churches, and canals that make up this exquisite city. Illustrations.

Venice

Venice
Author: Ian Littlewood
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719550850

Italy

Italy
Author: Lawrence Venuti
Publisher: Traveler's Literary Companions
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Some of Italy's best-known writers, including Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi, join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country's rich cultural history. Explore Italy's popular tourist destinations and out-of-the-way spots under the fresh and even startling light cast by these eighteen diverse and exciting stories, most of which are available here in English for the first time. Italy is consistently one of the top five travel destinations in the world for American travellers. For those who wish to reach beyond the stereotypes and discover an Italy that's off the beaten path, as well as new insights along familiar, well-travelled roads, these stories -- arranged geographically for the traveller, armchair or otherwise -- is an excellent place to start.

A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice

A Companion to Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2017-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004358307

This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.

The Venice Lido

The Venice Lido
Author: Robin Saikia
Publisher: Travel Monograph
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781905131501

A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
Author: Rosemary Gray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-01-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1509845992

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The Venetian Qur'an

The Venetian Qur'an
Author: Pier Mattia Tommasino
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812250125

In The Venetian Qur'an, Pier Mattia Tommasino uncovers the author, origin, and lasting influence of the Alcorano di Macometto, a book that purported to be the first printed European vernacular translation of the Qur'an.

Venice

Venice
Author: Martin Garrett
Publisher: Signal Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781902669298

Martin Garrett explores the extraordinary history, art and architecture of Venice and the islands of the lagoon. Looking at the legacy of the city's Jewish, Greek, Slav and Armenian minorities, he recalls the exploits of such legendary figures as Casanova and Byron. He also assesses the successful struggle to preserve the city in the face of flood and corruption, and its important modern role as host of the Biennale and film festival.MARTIN GARRETT is the author of literary companions to Italy and Greece, and has written or edited a number of works on Renaissance and nineteenth-century writers, including Sidney, Byron and the Brownings