# Venice

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- Book: [Venice](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-julius-norwich/venice) ([Venice.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-julius-norwich/venice.md))
- Authors: [John Julius Norwich](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-julius-norwich)
- Publisher: robinson
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7213-980-1
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it...', whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly... Propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a mediaeval walk.' Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has produced a dazzling anthology from the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others. From the days of the sixth century, when lagoon-dwellers lived 'like sea-birds' in huts built on heaps of osiers, to the Venice of eighteenth-century revellers and nineteenth-century art lovers - the city's many different guises are all portrayed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them.