The Resource Venice : pure city, Peter Ackroyd
Venice : pure city, Peter Ackroyd
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 403 p., [32] p. of plates
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso
- 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 house
- Secrets
- Chronicles
- Republic of commerce
- The merchants of Venice
- The endless drama
- Wheels within wheels
- Empire of trade
- The lion city
- Cities in collision
- A call to arms
- Timeless city
- Bells and gondolas
- Iustitia
- Against the Turks
- The living city
- The body and the building
- Learning and language
- Colour and light
- Pilgrims and tourists
- The art of life
- Hurrah for Carnival
- A divine art
- The eternal feminine
- What to eat?
- Sacred city
- Divine and infernal
- Of belief
- The shadows of history
- Decline and fall?
- Death in Venice
- City of myth
- The map unrolls
- The huddled family
- Moon and night
- While the music lasts
- A Venetian chronology
- Isbn
- 9780385531528
- Label
- Venice : pure city
- Title
- Venice
- Title remainder
- pure city
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Ackroyd
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Dewey number
- 945/.311
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DG672.2
- LC item number
- .A25 2009b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Venice (Italy)
- Venice (Italy)
- Venice (Italy)
- Venice (Italy)
- Label
- Venice : pure city, Peter Ackroyd
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index
- 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 house -- Secrets -- Chronicles -- Republic of commerce -- The merchants of Venice -- The endless drama -- Wheels within wheels -- Empire of trade -- The lion city -- Cities in collision -- A call to arms -- Timeless city -- Bells and gondolas -- Iustitia -- Against the Turks -- The living city -- The body and the building -- Learning and language -- Colour and light -- Pilgrims and tourists -- The art of life -- Hurrah for Carnival -- A divine art -- The eternal feminine -- What to eat? -- Sacred city -- Divine and infernal -- Of belief -- The shadows of history -- Decline and fall? -- Death in Venice -- City of myth -- The map unrolls -- The huddled family -- Moon and night -- While the music lasts -- A Venetian chronology
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 403 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385531528
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010010350
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn515405296
- Label
- Venice : pure city, Peter Ackroyd
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2009"--T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-386) and index
- 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 house -- Secrets -- Chronicles -- Republic of commerce -- The merchants of Venice -- The endless drama -- Wheels within wheels -- Empire of trade -- The lion city -- Cities in collision -- A call to arms -- Timeless city -- Bells and gondolas -- Iustitia -- Against the Turks -- The living city -- The body and the building -- Learning and language -- Colour and light -- Pilgrims and tourists -- The art of life -- Hurrah for Carnival -- A divine art -- The eternal feminine -- What to eat? -- Sacred city -- Divine and infernal -- Of belief -- The shadows of history -- Decline and fall? -- Death in Venice -- City of myth -- The map unrolls -- The huddled family -- Moon and night -- While the music lasts -- A Venetian chronology
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 403 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385531528
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010010350
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn515405296
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