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Library Aisles
- architecture
- art
- boats
- book about books
- classic
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- essays
- fiction
- food
- ghosts
- graphic novel
- Henry James
- historical fiction
- history
- in translation
- italiano
- music
- non-fiction
- novella
- passing through
- personal favorite
- poetry
- psychological
- romance
- Ruskin
- short story
- supernatural
- thriller
- travel
- Venezia (book in Italian)
- Vivaldi
- written by a woman
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Dal remo al vapore: I vaporetti e la nascita del trasporto pubblico a Venezia, by Alessandro Rizzardini
VENICE-O-METER 10 History of public transportation in Venice from the early 1800’s to the 1930’s, featuring plenty of fascinating archive documents and images This book reads like an (overly?) abundant collection of anecdotes and…
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The Borgia Portrait, by David Hewson
VENICE-O-METER 9 Crime novel set in Venice After The Medici Murders, this is mild-mannered archivist Arnold Clover’s second investigation in Venice. It hinges on a series of riddles that will have Clover running all…
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Storia di Venezia città delle donne — Guida ai tempi, luoghi e presenze femminili, di Tiziana Plebani et al.
VENICE-O-METER 10 Must-read history of Venice focusing on women. Includes brief portraits of some of the most epoch-making women in Venetian history as well as a remarkable map and a rich bibliography. This brilliant,…
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Watermark, by Joseph Brodsky
VENICE-O-METER 10 Masterpiece I wouldn’t call this a travel book, or even a book about Venice. Rather, it’s an book about the writer’s experience of Venice — the city where he spent his winter break…
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Il veneziano che scoprì il baccalà, di Paolo Cossi
VENICE-O-METER 7 Graphic novel based on a true, if unlikely 15th century story of survival, gastronomy and Venetian business acumen It’s a story straight out of a Hollywood survival movie. In 1431, the ship…
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Alle donne che niente sanno: Mestieri femminili, alfabetizzazione e stampa nella Venezia del Rinascimento, di Tiziana Plebani
VENICE-O-METER 7 Remarkable essays about the impact of the printing press on the lives of women in Renaissance Venice These brief essays by historian Tiziana Plebani are nothing short of enlightening. Here are some…
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Il mistero delle Due Dame, di Giandomenico Romanelli
VENICE-O-METER 5 Art history essay about the mystery surrounding Vittorio Carpaccio’s Due dame veneziane/Two Venetian Ladies Ruskin called this painting by Carpaccio “the best picture in the world,” adding “I know no other picture in…
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The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt
VENICE-O-METER 10 Non-fiction book about Venice The Fenice opera house at the heart of Berendt’s book, and other locations, can be found on the Reading Venice map.
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The Stones of Venice, by John Ruskin, edited by J.G. Links
VENICE-O-METER 10 A selection of essays from Ruskin’s 3-volume, ahem, masterpiece(The Books of Jacob is not set in Venice. These 2 volumes are together in the picture because they were my present to myself when…
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization, by Meredith F. Small
VENICE-O-METER 10Enlightening and engaging history of Venice focusing on innovations such as the semi colon, intellectual property law, the newspaper, etc.
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The Only Daughter / La fliglia unica, by Abraham B. Yehoshua
VENICE-O-METER 3Novel set in several Italian cities, including Venice English version translated by Stuart Schoffman, Italian version translated by Alessandra Shomroni This book was originally published in Hebrew, but it’s set in Venice and…
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“Don’t Look Now,” by Daphne du Maurier
VENICE-O-METER 8Brilliant supernatural and psychological short story / novella set in Venice(The other stories in the collection are not set in Venice) I was able to retrace the exact walk that the main characters,…
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“Death in Venice” in New Selected Stories, by Thomas Mann, translated by Damion Searls
VENICE-O-METER 6Short story set in Venice
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Anonimo veneziano, di Giuseppe Berto
VENICE-O-METER 8Novella set in Venice, over the course of a single day when two former lovers meet again
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