Bibliograph

Venice, a traveller's reader, introduced and edited by John Julius Norwich

Type

Label

Venice, a traveller's reader, introduced and edited by John Julius Norwich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Venice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

introduced and edited by John Julius Norwich

Sub title

a traveller's reader

Summary

Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning and Horace Walpole, among many others. The pieces range from the sixth century, when the early lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds in huts, built on heaps of osiers' to the exquisite city of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers. The city's many different guises are shown as both its citizens and visitors saw them

Target audience

adult

Classification