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  • Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion

  • Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion 

  • Martin Garrett 
  • Interlink Publishing Group 
  • Paperback
    243 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781566563697 
  • Garrett explores the extraordinary history, art, and architecture of Venice and the islands of the lagoon. Looking at the legacy of the city's Jewish, Greek, Slav, and Armenian minorities, he recalls the exploits of such legendary figures as Casanova and Byron. Maps and illustrations. 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 18.00 
  • Italian Venice: A History

  • Italian Venice: A History 

  • R. J. B. Bosworth 
  • Yale University Press 
  • Paperback
    352 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780300216127 
  • In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice--not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization,... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 24.50 
  • Miss Garnet s Angel*

  • Miss Garnet s Angel* 

  • Salley Vickers 
  • Paperback: 340 pages
    Publisher: Plume Books
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780142180563 
  • After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 8.00 
  • The Venetian Bargain

  • The Venetian Bargain 

  • Fiorato, Marina 
  • St. Martin Press 
  • Hardcover
    Pages: 407 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781250042958 
  • Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 9.50 
  • My Venice and Other Essays

  • My Venice and Other Essays 

  • Donna Leon 
  • Hardcover
    240 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802120366 
  • Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate plots and gripping narratives, but for her insight... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 14.50 
  • The Merchant of Venice*

  • The Merchant of Venice* 

  • William Shakespeare 
  • Hardcover
    48 pages
    2007
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780712309516 
  • Shakespeare’s First Folio is a modern term applied by scholars to one of the world’s most famous books, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, the collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays—and one of the highlights of the British Library. Published in... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 18.50 
  • The Floating Book

  • The Floating Book 

  • Lovric Michelle 
  • Harper Design Us (NF) 
  • Format:Softcover
    Language:English
    Pages:490 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780060578572 
  • This ravishing historical novel is set in the alleys and canals of 15th-century Venice as the revolution of movable type captivates - and terrifies - the city. 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 8.00 
  • The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa)

  • The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa) 

  • David Hewson 
  • Pan MacMillan 
  • Paperback: 474 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780330435949 
  • Life was never black and white in Italy . . . Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice reminded him of a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go. As their exile in Venice draws to a close, Roman detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 6.50 
  • Nulle part qu'à Venise

  • Nulle part qu'à Venise 

  • Alain Vircondelet 
  • Plon (Fr) 
  • Broché: 316 pages
    (novembre 2003) Langue : Français 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9782259197014 
  • De Venise, on croit tout savoir. Tant d'écrivains, d'artistes du monde entier, depuis des siècles, l'ont décrite, imaginée, célébrée. Mais, comme tous les mythes, Venise est inépuisable. Elle se réinvente chaque jour, peu à peu... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 28.50 
  • Gil Jouanard - Venise : En clair obscur

  • Gil Jouanard - Venise : En clair obscur 

  • Gil Jouanard 
  • L'Archenge Minotaure (Fr) 
  • Broché: 62 pages
    (mars 2006) Langue : Français 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9782914453653 
  • " ... c'était le clair obscur d'une image mentale, déconnectée de toute certitude et de tout cliché, hors du temps, antéhistorique, un univers à la fois crépusculaire et matinal, entre chien et loup, aube de fin du monde et fantasme d'un ailleurs... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 28.00 

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