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Title: A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich ISBN: 0-679-72197-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 18 June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating, Witty, and Comprehensive
Comment: After a trip to Italy, I became enchanted with Venice, and wanted to learn more about it. This book fufilled every expectation I had. Norwich has the ability to breathe life into what could be simply a dull list of Doges. It's obvious that Norwich deeply loves Venice, and he crafts his history with care and affection, along with a generous leaven of humor. Anyone who has an interest in Venice should read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lively account of the history of this Mediterranean jewel
Comment: Readers of Lord Norwich's Byzantium will appreciate this look at the history of Venice, and at the events and personalities which contributed to creating this jewel of the Mediterranean. Norwich navigates successfully through his detailed treatment of frequently repetitious events such as Venice's senseless struggle with Genoa for supremacy with his usual humour and knack for lively detail. Like his history of Byzantium, with its recurring theme of usurping emperors' physical mutilation of predecessors, this history too has a recurring theme: the attempt by the Venetian oligarchy, through a complex electoral process, to limit the power of the Doge by perpetuating a gerontocracy whose selection alternates among several prominent families. Readers of Byzantium should know that the chapter on the Fourth Crusade was recycled nearly verbatim from the present work, but this fact does not diminish the integrity of either volume
Rating: 1
Summary: A Tedious History
Comment: This is a tedious, plodding, Doge by Doge history of Venice, with barely a mention of how it came to be created by it's merchants, bankers, traders, craftsmen et.al.
The glory of Venice derives from it's business men (yes!) who eventually created an astonishing city to live and work in. They also created a method of government to keep it that way.
Norwich emphasizes political history at the expense of cultural, economic, intellectual and social history. It's a dull book that stops in 1807 - as if Venice ever stopped.
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Title: The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris ISBN: 0156983567 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Venice for Pleasure by J. G. Links ISBN: 1873429401 Publisher: Pallas Athene Pub Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: A Traveller's Companion to Venice (The Traveller's Companion Series) by John Julius Norwich ISBN: 1566564654 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Paradise of Cities : Venice In the 19th Century by JOHN JULIUS NORWICH ISBN: 0385509049 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0688053394 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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