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Klappentext The City of Bridges! as seen by the world s finest writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Some Literary Landmarks: St Mark's Square; Venice West; Venice East; The Lagoon; Bibliography; The Anthology: Pietro Bembo; Bernard Berenson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Lord Byron; Casanova;Wilkie Collins; Gasparo Contarini; Baron Corvo(Frederick Rolfe); Thomas Coryate; Charles Dickens; Hugh A. Douglas; Albrecht Durer; George Eliot;; John Evelyn; Goethe; Peggy Guggenheim; L.P. Hartley; Hugh Honour; James Howell; William Dean Howells; Henry James; J.G. Links; Thomas Mann; Jan Morris; John Julius Norwich; Petrarch; Ezra Pound; Anthony Powell; Marcel Proust; Samuel Rogers; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Effie Ruskin; John Ruskin; Marin Sanudo; William Shakespeare; Mark Twain; Giorgio Vasari; Richard Wagner; William Wordsworth; Sir Henry Wotton & Izaak Walton. Bibliography; Index.
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Over 700 years of literature about, or set in, Venice. Contains extracts from the works of poets, novelists, playwrights, historians and travellers. With city maps and an index.
