text Venice : pure city
- Summary
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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.
- Contents
- City from the sea -- Origins -- Water, water everywhere -- Mirror, mirror -- The city of St. Mark -- The saint comes -- Refuge -- Against nature -- Stones of Venice -- Ship of state -- "Let it be everlasting" -- The chosen people -- The prison hou... Read more
- Format
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- Description
- 403 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
| Library | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 945 ACK in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 945 ACK in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |