Venice : the lion, the city, and the water / Cees Nooteboom ; with photographs by Simone Sassen ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-2026, author.

Contributor:

Sassen, Simone, 1952- photographer.

Watkinson, Laura, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-2026--Travel--Italy--Venice.

Nooteboom, Cees.

Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-.

Travel.

Venice (Italy)--Description and travel.

Venice (Italy).

Tourism--Italy.

Tourism.

Italy.

Authors, Dutch--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Dutch.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

302 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven Yale University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The First Time: 1964 And 1982; "The Never-Ending Splendour Of Palaces And Churches"

Slow Arrival: Monument To The Partisans, Bacino Di San Marco; The Imperial Age Of Venice, 1380-1580; Palladio's Churches; A City Full Of Spirits, The Memory Of Spirits; The Accademia, The Apparition Of The Eternal

A Dream Of Power And Money: Of Dominion And Decline, A Paradise Of Beauty; Louis Couperus' Ten Suitcases; Looking For Santa Maria Dei Miracoli; Conversation With Petrarch And Boccaccio; A Day In The Accademia; "We Marry You, The Sea, As A Sign Of Our True And Perpetual Dominion"; San Giacomo, The Oldest Church In Venice; The Greatest Of All Venetian Painters, At The Scuola Di San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni; San Michele, "The Realm Of The Dead"

Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Pound, Brodsky; [ect.]

The Shattered Labyrinth: Arriving By Taxi In A Crossfire Of Sound; The Island Of San Giorgio; A Space Station Devised By Palladio; Burano, Torcello; Maria Assunta In 639, Renovated In 864, Again In 1008; Fondamente Nove, Santa Maria Assunta, Ignatius Loyola; "Buona Sera A Quasi Tutti"; Commissario Brunetti And Commissario Zen; Campo San Lorenzo; Zaccaria; "A Walker In Venice Is Someone Who Boldly Retraces His [ect.]

Antique Tourism: In A Gondola For The First Time; With Thomas Mann, Mary Mccarthy, Franz Kafka, Henry James, Ezra Pound, Louis Couperus; "O Sole Mio"; Floodwater On Piazza San Marco

Stories In Pictures I: Tiepolo In The Doge's Palace; Carpaccio In The Museo Correr; Guardi; The Facade Of Santa Maria Del Giglio; High-Water Sirens; The Other Tip Of Giudecca; "Melody For A Thousand Crabs"; "Because This City Is A Dream She Swoons In Violet Night Shadows"; The "Velvet Gloom Of Small Canals Over Ink-Dark [ect.]

Two Poems: 1. A Summer From Before The War; 2. Montale Interviews Hemingway

The Lost Last Supper: Veronese And The Venetian Inquisitors

Voices, Organ, Rain: The People Who May Call Themselves Venetians; The Codes And The Secret Laws Of The City; San Rocco, Palestrina, Musica E Spiritualita

The Liquid City, Kafka's Hotel: Kafka's Letter To Felice; Mooring Posts In The Mud; Arsenale; Invisible Among Venetians; The Cafe As A Sanctuary For Venetians; A Theatre In A Courtyard; San Giovanni In Bragora; Ruskin's Wise Lesson; Baptism By Cima Da Conegliano; Water People; Museo Navale; Venetian Seamanship; "Inhabitants Of A Sailing, Amphibious [ect.]

Names: A Journey To Chioggia; The Lido, Alberoni; Pellestrina; The Defeat Of Pippin; The Turbulence Of Schism And War; The Patriarch Of Grado, The Pope And The Emperor Of Byzantium; A Fish Market And Prisca's Gate; Pietro Civran's Campanile; On A Vaporetto With A Lion; Gondoliers; The Plague Of Tourism; Fra Paolo Sarpi; The Battle Between Venice And Pope Paul [ect.]

On The Trail Of The Painters: Tintoretto; Santa Madonna Dell'Orto; Lorenzetti The Guide; The Last Judgment; A Garden Of Desolation

Teresa's Garden: Santa Maria Di Nazareth; A Mystical Garden And A Deserted Corner Of Mount Carmel

Giacomo And Teresa, A Story Of Two Worlds: Casanova's Escape From The Piombo; Interview With Fellini; A Borgesian Labyrinth

Game Without A Map: San Pietro Di Castello; A Story Told By The Bricks Of Venice; The Unnoticed Venice Of Matvejevic; The Tomb Of Filippo Correr

Among Lions: A Deadly Squadron

Death And Venice: Pound And Brodsky

The Iewish Cemetery

Posthumous Mountaineering: The Graves Of Doges; 120 Doges; Choosing A Doge; A Favourite Doge; The Fourth Crusade

Stories In Pictures II, Giorgione In The Accademia; The Tempest; Canaletto; Tintoretto's Annunciation

Unfinished Farewell: A Siberian Storm; The Bridge Of Freedom Closed; The Frari; The Giardini Statues; Museo Di Storia Naturale; The Doge's Palace; Veronese's The Rape Of Europa; Tintoretto's Paradise And Bacchus And Ariadne Crowned By Venus; Henry James And Mark Twain; Francesco And Leandro Bassano's Pope Blessing A Doge; Venice For [ect.]

Last Day: A Cafe On Piazza Santa Margherita; Sant' Erasmo.

Notes:

"First published as Venetië : de leeuw, de stad en het water by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, in 2019" -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300254372

0300254377

OCLC:

1143644186