{"product_id":"9780671047641","title":"Venice: Lion City : The Religion of Empire","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eVenice: Lion City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Garry Wills\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarry Wills's \u003ci\u003eVenice: Lion City\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVenice: Lion City\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. It is illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color. Garry Wills gives us a unique view of Venice's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, its Jews, and its women as they created a city that is the greatest art museum in the world, a city whose allure remains undiminished after centuries. \u003cbr\u003e Like Simon Schama's \u003ci\u003eThe Embarrassment of Riches,\u003c\/i\u003e on the Dutch culture in the Golden Age, \u003ci\u003eVenice: Lion City\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place as a classic work of history and criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Excellent...ingenious...the best popular guide in years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e A book to read and reread and treasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarpers\u003c\/i\u003e Professor Wills's Venice is indescribably rich, coming as it does under the French ideal of total history -- politics, religion, daily life, art, architecture, wars, and men and women who seem to have walked out of Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Profoundly impressive...Nobody interested in Venice could fail to be excited by reading Wills's book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780671047641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592504553678,"sku":"9780671047641","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_c316dd11-a8d0-46d7-88dc-0f0c72e778ba.jpg?v=1637769556","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780671047641","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}