Fall of Venice - Hardcover

THE FALL OF VENICE

Hard bound with dustjacket. Zustand: Good copy. 31 B&w Plates (illustrator). 1st edition. Jacket illustration: Domenico Tiepolo: 'The dance'. Recreating the last hundred years of the independent Venetian Republic. Contents: 1). The thousand-year fight fight for survival. 2). 'Crafty and malignant foxes'. 3). The aristocratic showcase of Europe. 4). Bread and circuses. 5). The artists and Venetian light. 6). The last great artists of the Republic. 7). A dying nobility and a healthy people. 8). La Zentildonna. 9). 'Liberty and licence'. 10). The city and music. 11). Literary lions and 'Il Gran Goldoni'. 12). The last years of the Republic. With 32 pages of plates, bibliography and index. Endpaper illustrations. Maurice Rowdon's (1922 - 2009) love of Italy manifested itself in a series of travel and history books written while he was living in Rome (where he appeared as an extra in several Fellini films). Of the 12 books published in his lifetime, the travel books were the most popular and critically acclaimed. His books on Venice and Italy, including 'A Roman Street' (1964), 'Lorenzo the Magnificent' (1974) and 'The Fall of Venice' (1970), were so highly regarded that he was invited to become an Italian citizen - an honour he declined. 192 pag. Size: 24cmx16cm. Artikel-Nr. 028082

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