The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice

by IFenlon (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $50.52

  Presents in their broad, historical context the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a severe outbreak of the plague in which one quarter of the Venetian population perished. This work sheds fresh light on the historical machine that produced the distinct civic and cultural ethos of the city.