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Arranged in the form of seven detailed walking tours through Venice, this literary companion provides an illuminating guide to the streets, palaces, churches, and canals that make up this exquisite city. Illustrations.
Author : Ian Littlewood
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780312131135
Arranged in the form of seven detailed walking tours through Venice, this literary companion provides an illuminating guide to the streets, palaces, churches, and canals that make up this exquisite city. Illustrations.
Author : Ian Littlewood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary landmarks
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004358307
This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.
Author : Robin Saikia
Publisher : Travel Monograph
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781905131501
A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.
Author : Lawrence Venuti
Publisher : Traveler's Literary Companions
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Some of Italy's best-known writers, including Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi, join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country's rich cultural history. Explore Italy's popular tourist destinations and out-of-the-way spots under the fresh and even startling light cast by these eighteen diverse and exciting stories, most of which are available here in English for the first time. Italy is consistently one of the top five travel destinations in the world for American travellers. For those who wish to reach beyond the stereotypes and discover an Italy that's off the beaten path, as well as new insights along familiar, well-travelled roads, these stories -- arranged geographically for the traveller, armchair or otherwise -- is an excellent place to start.
Author : Ian Littlewood
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719550850
Author : John Varriano
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312131128
Arranged as a series of walks through the city, this book is both an illuminating guide for the visitor to Rome and a delight to read at home for those who love the city and want to enrich their knowledge of it. Includes 10 walking tours & illustrations.
Author : Toni Sepeda
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0802199844
An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal). Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos. In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye, fascination with history, ear for language, passion for food, and familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.
Author : Denis Belliveau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0742557375
Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Authors, Greek
ISBN : 9780892362981
A wide-ranging anthology of responses evoked through the ages by the history and beauty of Greece.