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Paradise of Cities
John Julius Norwich
其他書名
Venice and Its Nineteenth-century Visitors
出版Penguin Books, 2004
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / ItalyPolitical Science / Security (National & International)Social Science / Customs & TraditionsTravel / Europe / Italy
ISBN01402971709780140297171
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lAyAAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The city of Venice through the eyes of nineteenth century visitors. For this portrait of Venice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Lord Norwich has abandoned the historical approach, preferring to look at the city through the eyes of the most distinguished of its foreign visitors or residents. Beginning with Napoleon with, perhaps, the most mysterious of all his mistresses we continue with Byron, who cut his usual swathe among the feminine population while embarking on the last great affair of his life. Ruskin, Browning, Wagner and Henry James are among the others who for a longer or shorter time made the city their own, together with the two great Anglo-American painters James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. The survey ends with the insufferable Baron Corvo, who poisoned the life of the British colony in Venice in the years immediately before the First World War.