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La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

English

By (author): Jonathan Keates

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 citys 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 Venices history, from its half-legendary 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789545067

About Jonathan Keates

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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