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These 4 items are available for $67, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL159)

Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES 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, $23.00)
The World of Venice  •  Jan Morris HISTORY •  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, $16.00)
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice  •  Patricia Brown ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1997 •  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, $24.95)
Venice Map  •  Borch Maps 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. (ITL26, $7.95)

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 to the art, architecture, museums, history and culture of Venice includes 30 illustrations, maps and site diagrams. (ITL457, $29.95)
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •  Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on Venice's highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (ITL106, $11.95)
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, $25.00)
Venice for Pleasure  •  J.G. Links   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN DECEMBER  •  Anecdotal, digressive and fascinating, this book takes you by the hand and shows you the history, art and byways of Venice. (ITL104, $27.95)
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, $18.95)
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 1000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon. (ITL177, $25.00)
A Traveller's History of Venice  •  Peter Menzel   • HISTORY  •  A lively, brief history of Venice. (ITL625, $14.95)
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, $26.99)
The City of Falling Angels  •  John Berendt   • HISTORY  •  Berendt's masterful mix of damp aspirations, intrigue and eccentric personalities conveys a certain essence of what it's like to live in modern Venice. (ITL644, $15.00)
Venice Is a Fish  •  Tiziano Scarpa   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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. Great fun. (ITL964, $17.50)
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, $13.00)
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)
Watermark  •  Joseph Brodsky   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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, $12.00)
Palladio and Palladianism  •  Robert Tavernor   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A well illustrated guide to the work of Andrea Palladio, the 16th century Venetian architect, and his followers. (ITL25, $16.95)
Venice, The City and Its Architecture  •  Richard Goy   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  In this oversize, illustrated book, architect and historian Richard Goy discusses the diverse buildings of Venice, including fisherman's cottages, Christian basilicas, Palladio's masterpieces, and Longhena's Santa Maria de Salute. With 400 photographs, in color and black-and-white. (ITL251, $39.95)
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. (ITL663, $50.00)
Confessions of an Art Addict, A Memoir  •  Peggy Guggenheim   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A classic memoir that captures the spirit and intrigues of the 1930s art world. (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 with charm and wit. Montecchio, which Parks so indelibly sketches in this favorite book, is outside Verona. (ITL16, $14.00)
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, $13.95)
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, $13.95)
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 Girl of His Dreams  •  Donna Leon   • LITERATURE  •  Thickly plotted and as imbued as ever with the atmosphere of Venice, this 17th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery opens with the funeral of the detective's mother -- and includes going undercover to investigate a secretive religious sect and the suspicious death of a gypsy girl. (ITL940, $24.00)