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Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 312 PAGES
• COMING IN FEBRUARY

Featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. (ITL200, $20.00)

The World of Venice

by Jan Morris

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 315 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city. (ITL12, $18.95)

Art and Life in Renaissance Venice

by Patricia Brown

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

This compact volume evokes the spirit of Renaissance Venice with authoritative essays and 120 full-color illustrations. (ITL57, $40.80)

Venice Map

by Borch Maps

• 2008
• MAP

A colorful, detailed city map of Venice, perfect for finding your way around the famously labyrinthine streets and canals. (ITL26, $8.95)

 

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Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Map

by Touring Club Italiano

• 2008
• MAP

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

by Alta Macadam

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

This comprehensive guide is the best for art, architecture, museums, history and culture. (ITL457, $29.95)

Fodor's Venice's 25 Best

by Citypack

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES
• 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

by Lonely Planet

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2011
• PAPER
• 260 PAGES

A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)

Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide

by Laura Morelli

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

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

by Deborah Howard

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2004
• PAPER
• 368 PAGES

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

by James H. S. McGregor

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

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

by Richard J. Goy

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

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

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 1989
• PAPER
• 673 PAGES

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

by Peter Menzel

• HISTORY
• 2005
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

A lively, brief history of Venice. (ITL625, $14.95)

A Venetian Affair, A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century

by Andrea Di Robilant

• HISTORY
• 2005
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

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

by Harry Hearder

• HISTORY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 294 PAGES

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

by Dianne Hales

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• 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

by Iain Fenlon

• HISTORY
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES

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

by Mary McCarthy

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1995
• PAPER
• 158 PAGES

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

by Garry Wills

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

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

by Peter Ackroyd

• HISTORY
• 2011
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

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

by Aluise Zorzi

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2002
• HARD COVER
• 303 PAGES

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

by Daniele Resini

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2005
• HARD COVER

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

by Peggy Guggenheim

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1997
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

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

by Tim Parks

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2003
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

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

by Tiziano Scarpa

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES

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

by Joseph Brodsky

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1993
• PAPER
• 135 PAGES

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

by John Julius Norwich

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

An illuminating selection, edited and introduced by the great John Julius Norwich. (ITL484, $16.95)

By the Grand Canal, A Novel

by William Riviere

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

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

by Michael Dibdin

• MYSTERY
• 1995
• PAPER
• 297 PAGES

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

by Donna Leon

• MYSTERY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 270 PAGES

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

by Thomas Mann

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

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

by Sarah Dunant

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 385 PAGES

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

by Henry James

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 254 PAGES

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

by Donna Leon

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

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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