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Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671047641
Now in paperback, Wills's acclaimed book presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015073484084
Author : Mark Frutkin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780888783783
This magical novel is the story of Marco Polo as he is about to set sail on an arduous pilgrimage across the sun-soaked silk route.
Author : George Henty
Publisher : Litres
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041450816
Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547524632
"The Lion of Saint Mark" by G. A. Henty. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Henry Maguire,Robert S. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884023605
Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.
Author : Cees Nooteboom
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781529402568
"You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights coloured by his knowledge of art and literature as welll as his past experiences . . . Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERTO MANGUEL "The whole book is the illuminating testimony of a man who cannot look away and so sees things that others, even those with more specialist knowledge, have missed, whether it be the color and consistency of the ropes on the vaporetti, the glistening hues and squirming movements of the fish at the market, or the wondrous effects that Tintoretto could achieve with dabs of white in 'the gleam of armour, the folds in a sleeve, the windings of a turban, the halo of a man of the air who, as in the Last Judgment, is flying through space, in a wide flowing cloak . . .'" GREGORY DOWLING, Wall Street Journal VENICE: "A dream of palaces and churches, of power and money, dominion and decline, a paradise of beauty." By the author of Roads to Santiago and Roads to Berlin With this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of "the sailing, amphibious city", and for every new visitor. Because he is a master storyteller with an inexhaustible curiosity, and always with a suitcase of books (to which new discoveries are added), he brings vividly and poetically to life not only the tumultuous history of the Republic but along the way its doges, its villains, its heroes, its magnificent painters, its architects, its scholars, its skies, its canals and piazzas and alleyways, and on his expeditions its "bronze voices of time". Those who know and love this city and its literature will recognise Nooteboom - in Laura Watkinson's fine translation - as the dazzling heir and companion to Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Ruskin, Proust, Brodsky, and Donna Leon. His homage to Venice is a generous introduction, learned and enchanting, and worthy of its magnificent subject. "His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory" - COLIN THUBRON Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798703233511
The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion holding a Bible, is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian Republic.
Author : Barbara DiLorenzo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698405080
The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him. Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the evenings. And he especially loves the stone lion who seems to smile at him from a pedestal in the piazza. The lion makes him feel safe. But one day his father tells him that their family must leave. Their country is at war, and they will be safer in America. Renato can only think of his lion. Who will keep him safe? With luminous watercolor paintings, Barbara DiLorenzo captures the beauty of Florence in this heartwarming and ultimately magical picture book.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : MINN:31951P011478788
Author : Bianca Maria Scarfì
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015021880656
Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679644262
“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”—The Financial Times The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between are three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance, during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grow into the richest place on earth. Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. “[Crowley] writes with a racy briskness that lifts sea battles and sieges off the page.”—The New York Times “Crowley chronicles the peak of Venice’s past glory with Wordsworthian sympathy, supplemented by impressive learning and infectious enthusiasm.”—The Wall Street Journal
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260907243
Excerpt from The Lion of St. Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century Hush hush Francisco, the other said, grasping his arm. -do not say a word against the council. There is no saying who may be listening. And he looked nervously round to see if any one was within earshot. There it is, you see, his companion said. So long as we have a safe conscience in London we are frightened at nothing, whereas here no one can say with certainty that he may not before to-morrow morning be lying in the dungeons of St. Mark without the slightest idea in the world as to what his crime has been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : British
ISBN : OCLC:746964763
Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300047436
Venetian art - Venice - Themes and motives - Narrative painting Renaissance Italy.
