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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
John Julius Norwich |
ISBN: | 9780241953044 0241953049 |
OCLC Number: | 1106792068 |
Notes: | Originally published in 2 vols. as Venice. London: Allen Lane, 1977-81 |
Description: | 673 S. Ill. |
Series Title: | Penguin Non-fiction |
Responsibility: | John Julius Norwich. |
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Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done * Sunday Times * As a historian Norwich knows what matters. As a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history -- Hugh Trevor-Roper The standard Venetian history in English -- Jan Morris * The Times * Will become the standard English work of Venetian history * Financial Times * Read more...

