Good looking “Books” monographic on Venice, with walks, a historical synthesis, literary excerpts and a dictionary in which Fabien Coletti and Hélène Mitayne committed pages 40 !
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Designed by a team of french and Italian scholars, This volume is one of the most rich and ambitious books devoted to this mythical city which continues to fascinate millions of visitors.
Venice - "one of the most poetic secrets that ever existed on this earth", According to one of its best connoisseurs, Dino Buzzati - never ceases to fascinate countless visitors with its architectural splendour and disturbing and enchanting mystery.
Joint work of french and Italian employees from different backgrounds, This volume plunges us into the heart of this legendary town through a meticulous and original exploration that contradicts good shots without altering its legend. It shows how it is built over time by a fierce desire for domination of its natural environment. For centuries, Venice was an autonomous State, a rebel Republic and a dreaded maritime power. A city outsized whose prestige feeds the imagination that it inspires. The city of love, of seduction, sensuality, but also the symbol of the end of a world.
At the discretion of the walks he proposes, This book of unparalleled magnitude provides access to knowledge both realistic and intimate of Venetian life. Has always been prized by the french writers, Venice has also inspired the authors of all nationalities. The texts collected in the anthology, often unsung and sometimes unreleased, bear witness to this cosmopolitan dimension. Thanks to the dictionary of places, characters, works of art, institutions, festivities and traditions which closes this set, the reader can invent its own course in a labyrinthine city to the inexhaustible charm.
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