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La Serenissima The Story of Venice
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Apollo
| Author:
Jonathan Keates
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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Author:
Jonathan Keates
Language:
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Format:
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‘Everything about Venice,’ observed Lord Byron, ‘is, or was, extraordinary – her aspect is
like a dream, and her history is like a romance.’ Dream and romance have conditioned
myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city’s story embodies the
hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and on the
toughness and resilience of a free people.
In this new study of key moments in Venice’s history, from its halflegendary founding
amid the collapse of the Roman empire to its modern survival as a fragile city of the arts
menaced by saturation tourism and rising sea levels, Jonathan Keates shows us just
how much this remarkable place has contributed to world culture and explains how it
endures as an object of desire and inspiration for so many.
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‘Everything about Venice,’ observed Lord Byron, ‘is, or was, extraordinary – her aspect is
like a dream, and her history is like a romance.’ Dream and romance have conditioned
myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city’s story embodies the
hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and on the
toughness and resilience of a free people.
In this new study of key moments in Venice’s history, from its halflegendary founding
amid the collapse of the Roman empire to its modern survival as a fragile city of the arts
menaced by saturation tourism and rising sea levels, Jonathan Keates shows us just
how much this remarkable place has contributed to world culture and explains how it
endures as an object of desire and inspiration for so many.
About Author
Jonathan Keates is a historian and writer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a
former Trustee of the London Library, and was Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund. He
is the author of a number of acclaimed biographies, including works on Handel, Purcell
and Stendhal, as well as several travel books about Italy. For his services to promoting
Italian culture in the UK, he was recently honoured with the prestigious Ordine della
Stella d'Italia.
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