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| #2066886 in Books | 2002-09-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.11 x4.96 x7.98l,.83 | File type: PDF | 395 pages||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| A colorful anthology|By Rob Atkinson|I bought this anthology in the months prior to a trip to Venice, after reading editor John Julius Norwich's excellent "A History of Venice", to which it makes a terrific companion volume. These first-hand historical accounts present a colorful review of divergent viewpoints on "La Serinissima", from its distant origins in the Dark Ages up||'another excellent volume in the Travellers' Companion series' - Times; 'a brilliant historical anthology... which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author's witty selection of writings' - Harriet Crawley, Spectator|About t
Bringing to life Florence's glorious history in first-hand accounts.
Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. Henry James wrote passionately: "You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it..." whereas Mark Twain found St. Mark's "so ugly...Propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seem like a vast, warty bug taking a medieval walk." In this dazzling anthology, James and Twain al...
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