Venice, the Enchanted Mirror A Bedside Companion

Name: Venice, the Enchanted Mirror A Bedside Companion
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ISBN: 9780285637177

ISBN-10: 0285637177

ISBN-13: 9780285637177

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alain Buisine

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This rich and fascinating celebration of Venice presents a series of unconventional impressions of the heart of Venice and its dazzling spectrum of people. With a wealth of eyewitness accounts and comments by its famous visitors, including Joseph Brodsky, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Twain, and Orson Welles, this book is a thrilling evocation of Europe's capital of color. It examines the dark byways of the city's brutal history, the brilliance of Venetian painting, sumptuous architecture and embellishments, many arts—from glass blowing and boatbuilding to velvet—courtesans, fashions, food, music, politics, crumbling ruins and abandoned gardens, the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Souvenir Press Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English