Venice: Past and Present
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1799 |
Genre | : Venice (Italy) |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1799 |
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Author | : Thomas Osmond Summers |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Horodowich |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472107748 |
In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
Author | : Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781022723672 |
Explore the magical city of Venice through the ages with this beautifully illustrated book. From its early history through the Renaissance and into the modern era, readers will discover the art, architecture, and unique atmosphere of this enchanting city. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : W.H. Davenport Adams |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2020-04-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 3846050849 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author | : Great Britain Religious Tract Society |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018-02-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780484078870 |
Author | : Danilo Reato |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Venice (Italy) |
ISBN | : 9780760727027 |
Author | : Thomas F. Madden |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101601132 |
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub. Madden explores all aspects of Venice’s breathtaking achievements: the construction of its unparalleled navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the stunning architecture of its watery environs, and more. He sets these in the context of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, the endless waves of Crusades to the Holy Land, and the awesome power of Turkish sultans. And perhaps most critically, Madden corrects the stereotype of Shakespeare’s money-lending Shylock that has distorted the Venetian character, uncovering instead a much more complex and fascinating story, peopled by men and women whose ingenuity and deep faith profoundly altered the course of civilization.
Author | : Alessandro Marzo Magno |
Publisher | : Europa Editions |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 160945152X |
This early history of printed literature “delves into the delectable intrigues of Renaissance Venice with a degree of detail that will mesmerize readers” (La Repubblica). This accessible yet erudite history traces the incredible rise of publishing in the Republic of Venice, the Renaissance’s era of global capital of culture and trade. While a number of Venetian innovators drove this new enterprise, one in particular, Aldus Manutius, stands head and shoulders above the rest. Manutius tirelessly promoted the concept of reading for pleasure, and his Aldine Press commissioned the first modern typeface. Beginning in Venice and subsequently across much of the civilized world, bound printed editions of the Talmud, the Koran, the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, and classics of Greek and Latin poetry and theater began to circulate for the first time, leading to an unprecedented diffusion of human knowledge, and bringing about the birth of the modern world.
Author | : Patricia Fortini Brown |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300067003 |
Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.