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Venice : Lion City

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Venice, the imperial lion city.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Venice during its peak in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Garry Wills presents a unique perspective on the city's culture, governing structures, and social life through a combination of its art and history. The illustrations add depth and richness to the narrative, and readers will gain a newfound appreciation for the city's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, Jews, and women who created a city that remains the greatest art museum in the world.

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Venice : Lion City

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ISBN: 9780684871905
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱2,094.75
Authors: Garry Wills
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2001-09-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Art, Religion, History, Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 157 readers)

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Garry Wills's Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembles in its combination of art and sea empire. The structure of Venetian society was based on its distinctive practice of Venice elected its priests, defied the authority of papal Rome, and organized its liturgy around a lay leader (the doge). Lion City presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. In their culture, their governing structures, and their social life, the Venetians themselves speak to us with extraordinary immediacy, whether at work, warfare, prayer, or acting out their victories, celebrations, and petitions in the colorful festivals that punctuated the year. Lion City is illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color. Garry Wills gives us a unique view of Venice's rulers, merchants, clerics, and laborers, its Jews, and its women as they created a city that is the greatest art museum in the world, a city that continues to lure an endless stream of visitors. Like Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches, on the Dutch culture in the Golden Age, Lion City will take its place as a classic work of history and criticism.
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Venice, the imperial lion city.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Venice during its peak in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Garry Wills presents a unique perspective on the city's culture, governing structures, and social life through a combination of its art and history. The illustrations add depth and richness to the narrative, and readers will gain a newfound appreciation for the city's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, Jews, and women who created a city that remains the greatest art museum in the world.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.