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Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial—a

glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of

Venice, the ultimate city.

The Venetians’ language and way of thinking set

them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people,

linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This

lat?est work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic

gondola, transports its readers to that sensual and surprising

city.

His account embraces facts and romance, conjuring up the atmosphere

of the canals, bridges, and sunlit squares, the churches and the

markets, the festivals and the flowers. He leads us through the

history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists

of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great

mercantile state and its 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

glassblowers of Murano; the carnival masks and the sad colonies of

lepers; the artists—Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo. And the

ever-present undertone of Venice’s shadowy corners and dead ends,

of prisons and punishment, wars and sieges, scandals and

seductions.

Ackroyd’s Venice: Pure City is a study of Venice much in the

vein of his lauded London: The Biography. Like

London, Venice is a fluid, writerly exploration

organized around a num?ber of themes. History and context are

provided in each chap?ter, but Ackroyd’s portrait of Venice is a

particularly novelistic one, both beautiful and rapturous. We could

have no better guide—reading Venice: Pure City is, in

itself, a glorious journey to the ultimate city.

List of Illustrations

Map

I City from the Sea

1 Origins

2  Water, Water Everywhere

3 Mirror, Mirror

II The City of Saint Mark

4 The Saint Comes

5 Refuge

6 Agait Nature

7 Stones of Venice

III Ship of State

8 "Let it be everlasting"

9 The Chosen People

10 The Prison House

11 Secrets

12 Chronicles

IV Republic of Commerce

13  The Merchants of Venice

14 The Endless Drama

15 Wheels within Wheels

V Empire of Trade

16 The Lion City

17 Cities in Collision

18 A Call to Arms

VI Timeless City

19 Bells and Gondolas

20 Iustitia

21 Against the Turks

VII The Living City

22 The Body and the Building

23 Learning and Language

24 Colour and Light

25 Pilgrims and Tourists

VIII The Art of Life

26 Hurrah for Carnival

27 A Divine Art

28 The Eternal Feminine

29 What to Eat?

IX Sacred City

30 Divine and Infernal

31 Of Belief

X The Shadows of History

32 Decline and Fall?

33 Death in Venice

XI City of Myth

34 The Map Unrolls

35 The Huddled Family

36 Moon and Night

37 While the Music Lasts

A Venetian Chronology

Bibliography

Index

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Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as

much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid

life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler's guide,

it's a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particular

spell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it's aromatic

... Intoxicating.

—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Ackroyd provides a history of and meditation on the actual and

imaginary Venice in a volume as opulent and paradoxical as the city

itself. . . . How Ackroyd deftly catalogues the overabundance of

the city’s real and literary tropes and touchstones is itself a

kind of tribute to La Serenissima, as Venice is called, and

his seductive voice is elegant and elegiac. The resulting book is,

like Venice, something rich, labyrinthine and unique that makes

itself and its subject both new and necessary.”

—Publishers Weekly

Praise from the UK:

"Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there

can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than

he." —John Julius Norwich, The Telegraph

"Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and

elegance." —The Independent

"Venice tends to provoke extreme reactions. People love it or hate

it. Ackroyd’s response, however, is pleasingly complex. He observes

his subject with a forensic yet morally neutral eye. You can tell

he is fascinated by the place; but he is not blind to its many

flaws."  —The Times

"Irresistible, entrancing, occasionally weird but undeniably

grand." —Literary Review