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The Genius of Venice: Piazza San Marco and the Making of the Republic Hardcover – September 3, 2013

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 414 pages
  • Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris (September 3, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0847840530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847840533
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.3 x 10.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Intellignet and readable
By TAG on October 7, 2013
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The Genius of Venice is one of those unique combinations of great depth of information and knowledge, passed on to the reader in an exciting narrative of this very unique place. From the theft of the body of St. Mark to the building of great churches and palaces in one of the earliest recycling efforts ever, history comes alive in the tales of battles, flight from the Hun, persaverence, religion, royalty and architecture. This book will make you want to visit this one-of-a-kind city, where the genius of the founders is evident on every canal and piazza even today.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Five Star Pictures, Detailed Text
By James Ellsworth on January 24, 2014
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For general interest readers and even for people (like me) who have spent time in Venice, this book is overwhelming in its layered historical and art-historical approach to St. Mark's Square, the Basilica and the Doge's Palace. It is easy to agree with Dial Parrott and other scholars that the interior of the Basilica is one of the greatest works of Medieval art anywhere. The evidence is documented in the many sharply photographed, full-color plates included in this 358 page, relatively small print text. There are also fine plates in black and white that show interesting architectural models of the Basilica at major points in its development.

At the outset the historical information on the growth of the island republic is fascinating...but things go on and on. I've had plenty of education, including courses in urban planning, art history and art appreciation and I have visited St Mark's Square and the Basilica more than once over the years but I still have been unable to read even this fine text for very long in one sitting. The level of detailed information here exceeds my interest.

That this is primarily intended for a specialist audience is also attested to by 40 pages of densely written chapter end notes and a useful index that allows following a particular subject through to other sections of the book. I have to think that this could well be the definitive book on this historic space and its development.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A genius of a book on Venice
By CSquare on November 13, 2013
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This is a brilliant way of looking at Venice and even world history. The focus on a unique and beautiful location that played a key role in the history of both East and West, national unification in Europe and is today a major tourism site makes perfect sense. This is not a short book nor is it inexpensive but it is worth every penny and every minute of your time.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
multifaceted illustrated history of the famed city of Venice
By Henry Berry on September 25, 2013
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Parrott's multifaceted, historical work allows "readers to grasp the evolution of Venetian self-identity from the early Middle Ages to the Age of the Renaissance in an immediately apprehensible form." Venice's famous landmark and tourist mecca Piazza San Marco plays in the history like a theme which is a recurring jumping off spot and point of return. This central topic begins much before the building of the Piazza and its basilica with the selection of the area for these by the leader of Venice's first permanent inhabitants, early Middle Age Italian Christians hoping to find a place of safety from the barbarian invasions. It would be centuries before the Piazza with its public spaces and buildings achieved the full splendor for which the area is known.

Consideration of Piazza San Marco--always in mind even when not overt--allows for the beginnings and growth of the famed city of Venice through the height of its power in the Renaissance as an economic, political, and cultural paragon to the waning of its position by the early seventeenth century from uninspired leaders, economic competition of the modern era, and continual conflict among Italian city-states.

Parrott studies Venice more from a Mediterranean than a European perspective. At the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, it as if Venice looks eastward along sea lanes to Constantinople and Asia Minor, a link to farther places East rather than to the European landmass and its peoples and nations. This perspective presents a different view of the beginnings, rise, and fading of Venice for readers steeped in European history. It is a perspective in tune with today's global perspective.Read more ›
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
civic architecture and urban history
By professor of Italian on January 15, 2014
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In the middle of the journey of his life the author woke from a semi-delirious state to find himself in Venice. Unlike the usual traveller who wanders around besotted by the beauty of the place, he has spent more than thirty years analyzing the city's extraordinary visual impact and accounting for its historical uniqueness among Italian cities. Venice's sparkling light and watery reflections are misleading--it has always been a closed-in city of secrets and dark byways. This book seeks to illuminate the Venetian labyrinth by following a thread that leads outward from the architectural history of Piazza San Marco toward Constantinople and backward toward Rome whence came the first fugitives seeking safety in the lagoon. The intriguing chapter headings ("The Theft of St. Mark," "Warning from a Dying Doge," "The Turkish Vise and Other Calamities," "By the Skin of Her Teeth") and easy almost conversational style do not affect the reader's confidence in the scholarship that has organized such a vast amount of information. Too bad the abundance of gorgeous illustrations and heavy glossy paper stock make it impractical to carry this book with you on your next visit to Venice, or even to Istanbul.
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