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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $82, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL159)		  
Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES • COMING IN FEBRUARY
Another in the long line of superb Eyewitness Guides, this one features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions. It includes numerous cutaways and floor plans of local buildings as well. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL200, $20.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
The World of Venice  •  Jan Morris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 315 PAGES • FAVORITE
Morris displays her talent for research, telling anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited portrait of a beloved city, its history and inhabitants. If you are going to read one book on Venice, we recommend this favorite. Originally published in 1974 and revised for this edition, it's a tour de force. (ITL12, $18.95)		   The World of Venice
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice  •  Patricia Brown
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES
With a strong focus on art, the author evokes the guilds, nobility and spirit of the Renaissance in her discussion of painting, sculpture and architecture. With 120 full-color illustrations. A volume in the Prentice Hall Perspectives series. Also in this same series is "Renaissance Florence." Second edition. (ITL57, $40.80)		   Art and Life in Renaissance Venice
Venice Map  •  Borch Maps
2008 •  MAP
A colorful, detailed, laminated map of Venice at a scale of 1:6,500. Perfect for finding your way around the famously labyrinthine streets and canals. Plastic-coated. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (ITL26, $8.95)		   Venice Map



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Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Map  •  Touring Club Italiano    •  A detailed, shaded relief map of the Veneto at a scale of 1:200,000. Accurate, colorful, and imported from Italy. (ITL22, $12.95)
 		  
Blue Guide Venice  •  Alta Macadam   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This comprehensive guide is the best for art, architecture, museums, history and culture. (ITL457, $29.95)
 		  
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •  Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MARCH  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information. (ITL106, $12.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)
 		  
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide  •  Laura Morelli   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather. (ITL473, $24.95)
 		  
The Architectural History of Venice  •  Deborah Howard   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This revised edition of Howard's concise, fact-filled guide to Venetian churches, palaces and guildhalls from the Byzantine era to the present includes 70 black-and-white and 100 color illustrations. (ITL797, $26.00)
 		  
Venice from the Ground Up  •  James H. S. McGregor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A walking tour, history and celebration, this masterly, personal guide to Venice includes a short account of McGregor's favorite sites, 10 maps and suggested walks (and boat rides). (ITL792, $29.95)
 		  
Venice, An Architectural Guide  •  Richard J. Goy   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This guide to piazzas, palazzos and architecture of Venice includes walking tours, color illustrations and historical details from architect and critic Richard Goy. (ITA180, $28.00)
 		  
A History of Venice  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  The great historian Norwich marshals myriad personalities, battles, sieges, and facts into a vivid portrait of the Venetian Republic spanning the 1,000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon. (ITL177, $26.00)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Venice  •  Peter Menzel   • HISTORY  •  A lively, brief history of Venice. (ITL625, $14.95)
 		  
A Venetian Affair, A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century  •  Andrea Di Robilant   • HISTORY  •  This lively account of an affair between an Anglo-Italian beauty and her aristocratic lover (in which Casanova has a minor role) plays out in the richly evoked milieu of 18th-century Venice, Paris and London. (ITL604, $15.95)
 		  
Italy, A Short History  •  Harry Hearder   • HISTORY  •  Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present. (ITL56, $29.00)
 		  
La Bella Lingua  •  Dianne Hales   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazza, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir. (ITA26, $15.00)
 		  
Piazza San Marco  •  Iain Fenlon   • HISTORY  •  Fenlon reveals the dynamic, colorful, and noisy history of this grand square at the heart of Venetian civic life in this sophisticated pocket guide. (ITA113, $19.95)
 		  
Venice Observed  •  Mary McCarthy   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Originally published over 30 years ago, this collection of eight essays is a literate, evocative celebration of the city, its character, and its history. (ITL27, $13.95)
 		  
Venice, Lion City  •  Garry Wills   • HISTORY  •  A magisterial history of Venice at the height of its power as a maritime republic in the 15th and 16th centuries. Wills shows the power and influence of the city through its magnificent Renaissance art and architecture. (ITL324, $20.00)
 		  
Venice, Pure City  •  Peter Ackroyd   • HISTORY  •  Ackroyd's evocative, novelistic portrait of the city captures the spirit of the canals, markets and festivals, the merchants, artisans, scandals and seductions that have made Venice forever fascinating. (ITA183, $21.00)
 		  
Venice 697-1797: A City, a Republic, an Empire  •  Aluise Zorzi   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Zorzi reveals the growth of Venice from a small fishing village to a bustling metropolis whose cultural, political, and economic dominance extended over the entire Mediterranean world with this sumptuous collection of 340 color paintings, photographs and drawings. (MED186, $75.00)
 		  
Venice, The Grand Canal  •  Daniele Resini   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This ingenious book unfolds accordion-style to reveal a 42-foot panorama of the palaces, churches and museums fronting Venice's glorious Grand Canal. The photographer, Daniele Resini, took the photographs over a period of three years to create one perfectly continuous portrait of this architectural wonder. (ITL663, $50.00)
 		  
Confessions of an Art Addict, A Memoir  •  Peggy Guggenheim   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This classic memoir captures the spirit and intrigues of the 1930s art world by the heiress whose collection of modern art is showcased in Venice. (ITL128, $13.95)
 		  
Italian Neighbors  •  Tim Parks   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This sparkling memoir by the British novelist captures the travails and delights of life in the Italian countryside. Montecchio, which Parks so indelibly sketches in this favorite book, is outside Verona. (ITL16, $14.95)
 		  
Venice Is a Fish  •  Tiziano Scarpa   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The hugely popular Venetian novelist, poet and playwright makes his English-language debut with these marvelously digressive essays on the many moods and pleasures of La Serenissima. (ITL964, $12.00)
 		  
Watermark  •  Joseph Brodsky   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A metaphysical, metaphorical meditation on Venice by poet Joseph Brodsky. His ruminations take the form of 48 short chapters, each prompted by an idea, memory or scene associated with his much loved city. (ITL105, $13.00)
 		  
A Traveller's Companion to Venice  •  John Julius Norwich   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An illuminating selection, edited and introduced by the great John Julius Norwich. (ITL484, $16.95)
 		  
By the Grand Canal, A Novel  •  William Riviere   • LITERATURE  •  A group of friends reunite in Venice in the days after the 1918 armistice in this atmospheric novel. At its center is Hugh Thurne, a British diplomat who tries to escapes the shadows of war among the canals and dilapidated palazzos of the city. (ITL651, $13.00)
 		  
Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series. (ITL577, $14.95)
 		  
Death at La Fenice  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. (ITL555, $13.99)
 		  
Death in Venice and Other Tales  •  Thomas Mann   • LITERATURE  •  Neugroschel's fresh translations of Mann's celebrated title tale and 11 other classic stories capture the sensuality of the German original. (ITL996, $12.00)
 		  
In the Company of the Courtesan  •  Sarah Dunant   • LITERATURE  •  Dunant paints a vivid, earthy portrait of Renaissance Venice in this absorbing novel of intrigue, ambition and love -- cleverly narrated by the wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo, loyal companion of the courtesan. (ITL650, $13.95)
 		  
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  Henry James, like his narrator Jeffrey Aspern, whiled away the hours at Florians, a favorite cafe in much-loved Venice, wonderfully evoked in this atmospheric short story. (ITA116, $6.95)
 		  
The Girl of His Dreams  •  Donna Leon   • LITERATURE  •  Now in paper! Thickly plotted and as imbued as ever with the atmosphere of Venice, The Girl of His Dreams, 17th in the series, opens with the funeral of Brunetti's mother. Going undercover (and besotted), the detective investigates, among other things, a mysterious religious sect and the suspicious death of a gypsy girl. (ITL940, $14.00)
 		  
 
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