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Venice: pure city
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Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial -- a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice. In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the fiestas and the flowers. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arrivingin the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and a trading empire, the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today. Everything is here: the merchants on the Rialto and the Jews in the ghetto; the mosaics of St Marks and the glass blowers of Murano; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of lepers; the doges and the destitute and the artists with their passion for colour and form -- Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo. There are wars and sieges, scandals and seductions, fountains playing in deserted squares and crowds thronging the markets. And there is a dark undertone too, of shadowy corners and dead ends, prisons and punishment. The language and way of thinking of the Venetians sets them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. The moon rules Venice, Ackroyd writes: It is built on ocean shells and ocean ground; it has the aspect of infinity. It is the floating world ... changing and variable and accidental.This book, like a magic gondola, transports its readers to that sensual, surprising realm. We could have no better guide -- reading Ackroyds Venice is, in itself, a glorious journey and the perfect holiday. From the Trade Paperback edition.;City from the sea -- Origins -- Water, water everywhere -- Mirror, mirror -- The city of St. Mark -- The saint comes -- Refuge -- Against nature -- Stones of Venice -- Ship of state -- Let it be everlasting -- The chosen people -- The prison house -- Secrets -- Chronicles -- Republic of commerce -- The merchants of Venice -- The endless drama -- Wheels within wheels -- Empire of trade -- The lion city -- Cities in collision -- A call to arms -- Timeless city -- Bells and gondolas -- Iustitia -- Against the Turks -- The living city -- The body and the building -- Learning and language -- Colour and light -- Pilgrims and tourists -- The art of life -- Hurrah for Carnival -- A divine art -- The eternal feminine -- What to eat? -- Sacred city -- Divine and infernal -- Of belief -- The shadows of history -- Decline and fall? -- Death in Venice -- City of myth -- The map unrolls -- The huddled family -- Moon and night -- While the music lasts -- A Venetian chronology.

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ALSO BY PETER ACKROYD

FICTION
The Great Fire of London
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Hawksmoor
Chatterton
First Light
English Music
The House of Doctor Dee
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Milton in America
The Plato Papers
The Clerkenwell Tales
The Lambs of London
The Fall of Troy
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

NONFICTION
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
London: The Biography
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

BIOGRAPHY
Ezra Pound and His World
T.S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More
Shakespeare: The Biography

ACKROYDS BRIEF LIVES
Chaucer
J.M.W. Turner
Newton
Poe: A Life Cut Short

POETRY
Ouch!
The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems

CRITICISM
Notes for a New Culture
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures edited by Thomas Wright

Copyright 2009 by Peter Ackroyd All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

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Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus,
The Random House Group Ltd., London, in 2009.

Doubleday is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949
Venice : pure city / Peter Ackroyd. 1st ed. in the United States of America.
p. cm.
Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London,
in 2009T.p. verso.
1. Venice (Italy)History. 2. Venice (Italy)Social conditions. 3. Venice (Italy)Social life and customs. 4. Venice (Italy)Civilization. I. Title.
DG672.2.A25 2009b
945.311dc22
2010010350

eISBN: 978-0-385-53153-5

v3.1

For
Alison Samuel

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my two research assistants, Thomas Wright and Murrough OBrien, for their invaluable work on this project. I would also like to extend my thanks to my editor, Jenny Uglow, and my copy-editor, Jenny Overton.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Section One

Cristoforo Sabbadino, Map of Venice, c.1557. Archivio di stato, Venice/Cameraphoto Arte Venezia/Bridgeman

Perspective plan of Venice (detail). Muse du Louvre, Paris/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

The mosaics in Saint Marks cathedral, late 14c. Alinari/Rex Features

The Madonna, cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, early 13c. akg-images/Cameraphoto

The Flood, mosaic in the narthex, western portico, of Saint Marks cathedral, 13c. akg-images/Erich Lessing

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), The Stealing of the Body of Saint Mark, 156266. Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

The Lion of Saint Mark, 15c., Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Monks praying to Saint Theodore, from a Mariegola, 1350. Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Simon Marsden, The columns of Saint Mark and Saint Theodore, Piazzeta San Marco. The Marsden Archive, UK/Bridgeman

Gentile Bellini, Procession on the Piazza S. Marco, 1496. Galleria dellAccademia/akg-images/Erich Lessing

Piazza S. Marco, c.188090. Roger-Viollet/Rex Features

Gentile Bellini, The Miracle of the Cross on San Lorenzo Bridge, 1500. Galleria dellAccademia/Bridgeman

Francesco Guardi, The Departure of the Bucintoro towards the Lido on Ascension Day (detail), 176670, Muse du Louvre/Giraudon/Bridgeman

Vittore Carpaccio, The patriarch of Grado heals a possessed man on the Rialto Bridge (detail), 1494 Galleria dellAccademia/akg-images/Cameraphoto

Section Two

Paolo Veronese, The Battle of Lepanto, 1571. Galleria dellAccademia, Venice/akg-images

Plan of the Arsenal. Museo Correr, Venice/Bridgeman

Franceso Segala, a Venetian warship, on the Mausoleum of Girolamo Michiel, c. 155859. Basilica of SantAntonio, Padua/Bridgeman

Sign for the Marangoni family of shipbuilders, 1517. Museo Correr/Alinari/Bridgeman

Jan van Grevenbroeck, Dredging a Canal, 18c. Museo Correr/Giraudon/Bridgeman

Jan van Grevenbroeck, An Oar-Maker from the Arsenal, 18c. Museo Storico Navale, Venice/Bridgeman

Jan van Grevenbroeck, A Venetian Doctor during the Plague, 18c. Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Jan van Grevenbroeck, Venetian Bellmakers Shop, 18c. Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Venetian glass in the Pauly showrooms, Milan, 1910. Alinari/Rex Features

Lace workers on Burano, 19c. Collezione Naya-Bohm, Venice/Bridgeman

Ferdinando Ongania, A Venetian Courtyard, c. 1880. Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, Florence/Bridgeman

A funeral gondola, 18801920. Collezione Naya-Bohm, Venice/Bridgeman

Giovanni Pividor, The railway bridge across the lagoon, from Views of Principal Monuments in Venice, 1850. Bridgeman

The remains of the Campanile, La Domenica del Corriere, 27 July 1902. Cameraphoto Arte Venezia Corriere/Bridgeman

Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces, from John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 18513

Section Three

Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice, c.1501. National Gallery, London/Bridgeman

Joseph Heintz, Audience with the Doge in the College of the Ducal Palace, early 17c. Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Pietro Uberti, Portrait of three lawyers, Orazio Bembo, Orazio Angarano and Melchior Gabriel, 1730. Palazzo Ducale/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Jacobello del Fiore, Justice and the Archangels, 1421. Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

The lions mouth. Palazzo Ducale/Bridgeman

The Pozzi prison, from Vedute delle Prigioni, 18c. Museo Correr/Bridgeman

Vittore Carpaccio, Dream of Saint Ursula, 1495, Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Pietro Longhi, The Tailor, 17423. Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Pietro Longhi, The Geography Lesson, c.17502. Galleria Querini-Stampalia/Bridgeman

Pietro Longhi, The Perfume Seller, c.1750. CaRezzonico, Museo del Settecento/Alinari/Bridgeman

Madonna of Mercy, 16c. Museo Correr/Alinari/Bridgeman

Paolo Veneziano, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Devout People, 14c. Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, The Coronation of the Virgin, late 15c. Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), The Tempest, c.15068. Galleria dellAccademia/Cameraphoto/Bridgeman

Giovanni Bellini, Young Woman at Her Toilet, 1515. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/akg-images/Erich Lessing

Titian (Tizian Vecellio), Venus of Urbino (detail), before 1538. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence/Bridgeman

Section Four

Paolo Veronese, The Marriage Feast at Cana (detail), c. 1562. Muse du Louvre/Giraudon/Bridgeman

Gabriele Bella, Concert by the girls of the hospital music societies in the Procuratie, Venice, 18c. Galleria Querini-Stampalia/Bridgeman

Francesco Guardi, The Parlour of the San Zaccaria Convent

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