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Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2010 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, $20.00)
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 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, $35.20)
Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Map
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. Eigth edition. Two Sides. 37x54 inches.
(ITL22, $12.95)
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best
Citypack
GUIDEBOOK
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information.
(ITL106, $11.99)
Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
This compact phrase book, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary, also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(ITL424, $8.95)
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, $26.00)
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 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)
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 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)
A Traveller in Italy
H.V. Morton
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings in the temples, tombs and villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia and the Veneto.
(ITL417, $25.00)
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)
Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others.
(ITL39, $14.95)
Medusa, An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Michael Dibdin
MYSTERY
In this ninth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series, our worldly detective investigates a mysterious corpse in a long-abandoned military tunnel in the Dolomites.
(ITL576, $13.95)
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