NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Best-Ever Writing on Favourite World Cities – Venice
Looking for great, exciting writing that illuminates the cities you visit? Then check out Oxygen Books’ innovative city-pick series featuring some of the best-ever writing on favourite world cities. It’s already been called ‘superb .. like having your own iPad loaded with different tomes’ (London Times), ‘wonderful’ (London Guardian) ‘sublime’ (The Sydney Morning Herald) and praised for its ‘super-relevant destinations’ (Lonely Planet Magazine)
Each paperback book includes over fifty writers, fiction and non-fiction, past and especially present, including newly translated writing. So far there are titles on New York, Berlin, Paris, London, Venice, Amsterdam and Dublin – St Petersburg, Istanbul and Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv follow soon. For more details, visit www.oxygenbooks.co.uk , ( available in North America at www.bookdepository.com ). In the meantime, enjoy a little taste of Venice, here from Henry James’ Wings of the Dove (1902):
“Venice, please, if possible, no dreadful, no vulgar hotel; but, if it can be at all managed–you know what I mean–some fine old rooms, wholly independent, for a series of months. Plenty of them too, and the more interesting the better: part of a palace, historic and picturesque, but strictly inodorous, where we shall be to ourselves, with a cook, don’t you know?–with servants, frescoes, tapestries, antiquities, the thorough make-believe of a settlement. [...] Palazzo Leporelli held its history still in its great lap, even like a painted idol, a solemn puppet hung about with decorations. Hung about with pictures and relics, the rich Venetian past, the ineffaceable character, was here the presence revered and served: which brings us back to our truth of a moment ago–the fact that, more than ever, this October morning, awkward novice though she might be, Milly moved slowly to and fro as the priestess of the worship.”
Here from Jane Langston’s The Thief of Venice (1999)
“At the east end of the thronged square the Basilica of Saint Mark loomed out of the grey fog like a dream of oriental splendour. In the mist the brilliant colours of the mosaics and the marble columns seemed a little washjed out, as though every tourist snapshot had stolen here a blush of rose, there a glitter of gold. On the balustrade above the central protal the bronze horses pawed gthe mist, two with the left foot, two with the right.”
Simon Luff, Diary (2006)
“Coming out of the dim, leather-smelling cave of the handbag shop into the unique dazzle of a Venetian afternoon. Yes, it’s the light, the light and…so much else.. But the light above all. I don’t think even Canaletto got it right. Not quite.”
Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice (2009)
“Piazza San Marco, so lovely in photographs or at dawn, so pigeon-congested once the day got going.”
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