Venice

• Verfasst von: Romano, Dennis [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Venice
• Titelzusatz: the remarkable history of the lagoon city
• Verf.angabe: Dennis Romano
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xvi, 775 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 695-740
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085998-5
• ISBN: 978-0-19-769602-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Venedig / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Romano, Dennis, 1951 - : Venice. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 775 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: NR 8783
• K10plus-PPN: 1854474065

Abstract

"No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, "another world." During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival"