Venice
Subtitle: pure city
By: Peter Ackroyd
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780385531528
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Civilization; History
Description: A glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city, embracing facts and romance, history and artists, carnival masks and leper colonies, wars and sieges, and scandals and seductions.
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: City from the sea; title: Origins; title: Water, water everywhere; title: Mirror, mirror; title: The city of St. Mark; title: The saint comes; title: Refuge; title: Against nature; title: Stones of Venice; title: Ship of state; title: "Let it be everlasting"; title: The chosen people; title: The prison house; title: Secrets; title: Chronicles; title: Republic of commerce; title: The merchants of Venice; title: The endless drama; title: Wheels within wheels; title: Empire of trade; title: The lion city; title: Cities in collision; title: A call to arms; title: Timeless city; title: Bells and gondolas; title: Iustitia; title: Against the Turks; title: The living city; title: The body and the building; title: Learning and language; title: Colour and light; title: Pilgrims and tourists; title: The art of life; title: Hurrah for Carnival; title: A divine art; title: The eternal feminine; title: What to eat?; title: Sacred city; title: Divine and infernal; title: Of belief; title: The shadows of history; title: Decline and fall?; title: Death in Venice; title: City of myth; title: The map unrolls; title: The huddled family; title: Moon and night; title: While the music lasts; title: A Venetian chronology.