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Venice: The Enlightened Traveler's Historical Guide

Autor Jack Higson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 feb 2005
Venice: The Enlightened Traveler’s Historical Guide prepares the way for an in-depth understanding of Venice and stimulates an interest in its remarkable past and problematic future. This heavily illustrated book sets the stage and mood of contemporary Venice, laying out its topographical and salient characteristics, and then proceeds to interpret its major treasures and contributions in relation to its historical background.

Venice: The Enlightened Traveler’s Historical Guide is a composite or blend— part history part descriptive explanation and commentary, part guide—that synthesizes the vital aspects of the city, recounted and interpreted chronologically within the context of historical narrative. In sum, it is an insightful account of one of the world’s most unique cities, employing strict selectivity of the political, economic, military and social strands of Venice’s long and fascinating evolution! This perspective in turn forms a framework for generalized comment on the city’s contributions to art and architecture, to music and pageantry, to finance and trade, to morals and politics.

Part I summarizes Venice’s historical progression and the forces at work that shaped it

Part II (which constitutes three-quarters of the book) is a chronological account, broken into seven sub-chapters based on clearly recognizable time periods.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780971955219
ISBN-10: 0971955212
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 52 color photos, 25 B&W photos, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Source Book Publications
Colecția Source Book Publ., Half Full Press

Descriere

Seen from a distance, the visually astonishing structures of Venice rise up in a unique architectural fantasy that begs the question: how did this city come to be? This intelligent guide does justice to the only city of consequence to have remained almost entirely unchanged from prior centuries. Unlike other guidebooks that are burdened with unrelated facts and utilitarian information, John W. Higson Jr. conveys the most vibrant and essential aspects of the city's cultural, social, and political heritage. Here Venice is portrayed in all its magnificence, including fascinating revelations on its colorful past, precarious future, and place in the Mediterranean world as a whole.