A History of Venice
Author(s): John Julius Norwich
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
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Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done Sunday Times As a historian Norwich knows what matters. As a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history -- Hugh Trevor-Roper The standard Venetian history in English -- Jan Morris The Times Will become the standard English work of Venetian history Financial Times
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.51
- : 01 October 2012
- : 198mm X 129mm X 31mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2013
- : books
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- : 678
- : 2
- : Paperback
- : John Julius Norwich
