Jonathan Keates La Serenissima (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: La SerenissimaCondition: NewSubtitle: The Story of VeniceISBN-10: 1789545064EAN: 9781789545067ISBN: 9781789545067Publisher: ApolloFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/09/2023Description: ‘Everything about Venice,’ observed Lord Byron, ‘is, or was, extraordinary – her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.’ Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city’s story embodies the hard reality of an independent state built on conquest, profit and entitlement and on the toughness and resilience of a free people.In this new study of key moments in Venice’s history, from its half-legendary founding amid the collapse of the Roman empire to its modern survival as a fragile city of the arts menaced by saturation tourism and rising sea levels, Jonathan Keates shows us just how much this remarkable place has contributed to world culture and explains how it endures as an object of desire and inspiration for so many.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmAuthor: Jonathan KeatesGenre: HistoryTopic: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: La Serenissima

Title: La Serenissima

Subtitle: The Story of Venice

ISBN-10: 1789545064

EAN: 9781789545067

ISBN: 9781789545067

Release Date: 11/09/2023

Release Year: 2023

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Item Height: 198mm

Book Title: Serenissima : the Story of Venice

Number of Pages: 448 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Head of Zeus

Publication Year: 2023

Topic: Europe / Italy, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Medieval

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Travel, History

Item Length: 7.8 in

Author: Jonathan Keates

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback