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Pages: 428
Authors: Tony Tanner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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If there is one city that might be said to embody both reason and desire, it would surely be Venice: a thousand-year triumph of rational legislation, aesthetic
Venice Desired
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Tony Tanner
Categories: English literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Venice and the Cultural Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Michael O'Neill
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws o
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Judith Martin
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-07 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Add No Vulgar Hotel to the list of books you must read before you come to Venice." —Donna Leon This is the definitive book for managing an incurable passion
The Venice Myth
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: David Barnes
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political bac