Venice, Thomas F. Madden
Venice, Thomas F. Madden
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Venice
A New History

Author: Thomas F. Madden

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 16 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/07/2012


Synopsis

A spellbinding new portrait of one of the world’s most beloved cities, from the author of Istanbul

La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike.

Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either facile travel guides or fusty academic tomes. In Venice, renowned historian Thomas F. Madden draws on new research to explore the city’s many astonishing achievements and to set 1,500 years of Venetian history and the endless
Venetian-led Crusades in the context of the ever-shifting Eurasian world. Filled with compelling insights and famous figures, Venice is a monumental work of popular history that’s as opulent and entertaining as the great city itself.

“Breezy, cheerful, evenhanded, Madden debunks myths about Venetian decadence, and brushes aside ugly whispers about greedy, unscrupulous merchants. When a colorful character pops up (Marco Polo, Casanova), he makes the most of it in his brisk, no-nonsense prose.”—New York Times

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on August 12, 2017

A succinct, vividly-written, and sweeping history of the city on the lagoon, and, moreover, of the Most Serene Republic of Venice that dominated Mediterranean trade for centuries. It's a new history, more compact than the magisterial history of Venice by John Julius Norwich, but goes further by tell......more

Goodreads review by Andres Felipe on September 17, 2024

Es mi primer libro leído sobre la historia de Venecia y la verdad fue muy buena la experiencia, cómo menciona el autor es una historia accesible de este gran imperio, aunque la verdad el autor mencionó qué es su historia iba a tener varios actores, cosa que no llegue a apreciar mucho, puesto que era......more