Historia de Venecia

Venice is an extraordinary city that still attracts millions of visitors every year, eager to contemplate its canals and stroll through its streets full of history. From its beginnings in the 5th century as a town of modest merchants' houses, through its rise to naval and commercial power, until the dissolution of the Serene Republic by Napoleon in 1797, the historian John Julius Norwich offers us a fascinating portrait of long time of the famous city of canals. This is a story populated by fascinating characters and full of riches, adventures, intrigues and heroics. Only Norwich, with his surprising erudition and his style at the same time entertaining and elegant, is able to recreate before us the splendor of Venice. For these reasons, and many others, History of Venice is a true modern classic, an indispensable reading for anyone who wants to know the history of that wonderful city.