A History of Venice
$30.66
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2013
Summary
Renowned historian John Julius Norwich’s classic history of Venice - with a fresh new cover look.
Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable…
A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world’s busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon in 1797. Rich in fascinating historical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953044 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241953049 |
| Author: | John Julius Norwich |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done * Sunday Times *
As a historian Norwich knows what matters. As a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enlivening wit. He contrives, as no English writer has done before, to sustain a continuous interest in that crowded history – Hugh Trevor-Roper
The standard Venetian history in English – Jan Morris * The Times *
Will become the standard English work of Venetian history * Financial Times *
John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut. In 1964 he resigned from the service to write. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice and the Byzantine Empire. He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries on television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.
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