Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century. [Hardcover]
by Norwich, John Julius
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine dj. (a pristine copy: covers, text, & jacket clean/unmarked/crisp)
- ISBN 10
- 0385509049
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509046
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John Julius Norwich is the author of histories of Venice and Byzantium, and of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Among his other works are books on architecture, music, and the history plays of Shakespeare, together with an annual anthology, A Christmas Cracker . He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television and is a regular lecturer on a wide range of subjects. He is a former Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Chairman of the World Monuments Fund in Britain, and a former member of the executive committee of the National Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Geographical Society, and a Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He lives in London.
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- Booktopia (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19062110
- Title
- Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century. [Hardcover]
- Author
- Norwich, John Julius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine dj. (a pristine copy: covers, text, & jacket clean/unmarked/crisp)
- ISBN 10
- 0385509049
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509046
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- NY.
- Date Published
- (c2003)
- Pages
- xxiv. + 336pp.
- Keywords
- 19th Century Venice Italy Italian Cultural Intellectual History, John Ruskin, Henry James, Lord Byron George Gordon, 19th Century Venetian Cultural Life Intellectual History, Travel Venice Italy
- Size
- 8vo.
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