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Venice
John Julius Norwich
其他書名
A Traveller's Reader
出版
Hachette UK
, 2017-07-06
主題
Travel / Europe / Italy
History / Europe / Italy
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Special Interest / Literary
Travel / General
ISBN
1472139801
9781472139801
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nlvJDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.