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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400032372
John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed
“indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second
book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the
story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s
highs and lows, from its ignominious capture by Napoleon in 1797 to
the dawn of the 20th century.
An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman
(and, later, Americans), Venice limped into the 19th century–first
under the yoke of France, then as an outpost of the Austrian
Hapsburgs, stripped of riches yet indelibly the most ravishing city
in Italy. Even when subsumed into a unified Italy in 1866, it
remained a magnet for aesthetes of all stripes–subject or setting
of books by Ruskin and James, a muse to poets and musicians, in its
way the most gracious courtesan of all European cities. By
refracting images of Venice through the visits of such extravagant
(and sometimes debauched) artists as Lord Byron, Richard Wagner,
and the inimitable Baron Corvo, Norwich conjures visions of
paradise on a lagoon, as enduring as brick and as elusive as the
tides.
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