Italian Venice – A History - Couverture souple

Bosworth, R. J. B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300216122 ISBN 13 : 9780300216127

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Italian Venice is a work far more colourful and enjoyable than the usual dust-dry tomes on Venice. . .Bosworth has previously published exemplary works on Mussolini and on Rome, and this one on the real, living Venice is equally fascinating.' --Tobias Jones, The Sunday Times

'. . . Bosworth, a subtle and stylish historian, believes that the best way to keep Venice alive (and authentic) is to embrace its unofficial histories. His stimulating book decodes monuments that are not to be found in the tourist guides but which are nonetheless emblematic of a city that 'is washed by multiple pasts enjoying their historians or summoning them to write another telling story.'' --Christopher Silvester, The Financial Times

'This is unquestionably one of the boldest approaches to the realities of modern Venice to have appeared in recent years. Superbly judged as an exercise in style and exemplary in the range of its documentation, it is required reading for anyone whose engagement with the city and its historical experience goes beyond mere sentimental nostalgia' --Jonathan Keates, Literary Review

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the "Disneylandification" of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes: the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, and the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice's history but its meanings, and how the city's past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300216122
• ISBN 13: 9780300216127
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352