Author: Pietro Bembo
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Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Pietro Bembo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022843
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was a celebrated Latin stylist and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love influenced the development of the literary vernacular, as did his Prose della volgar lingua (1525). From 1513 to 1521 he served Pope Leo X as Latin secretary and became known as the leading advocate of Ciceronian Latin in Europe and of the Tuscan dialect within Italy. He was named official historian of Venice in 1529 and began to compose in Latin his continuation of the city's history in twelve books, covering the years from 1487 to 1513. Although the work chronicles internal politics and events, much of it is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states (France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, and the papacy) and with the Turks in the East.

Author: Pietro Bembo
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ISBN: 9780674022836
Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 191269753X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.

Author: Horatio Forbes Brown
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Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 673

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Author: Paolo Paruta
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334289569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Excerpt from The History of Venice Imperialtfis at Pavia, 2 1 8 Bemardmo Fiangipane, a Jiehel3 57. Set th on the Port of Marano; 58, He relieve; Maran0, and route the V enetiant, 60. Take: Strafoldo, and mo'n falconcnbldfa/ls upon Oliofo, 64' I: heater; thence, 71, Ta ken prtfoner, and earned tove nice, ibid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Horatio F. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781021889188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher:
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Category : Venice (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: Marino FALIERO (Doge of Venice.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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