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.Florence (Art & Architecture) (Art & Architecture)

by: Rolf C. Wirtz

February 15, 2006
Yes this has everything needed for a Florence lover with an abundance of information and pictures.
Best of all is the size which makes holding for old hands much easier withought giving up the pleasures of much larger editions.
100% enjoyment.
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.Rome (Art & Architecture) (Art & Architecture)

by: Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen

February 15, 2006
Smaller than the usual coffee table editions but have as much or maybe even more inside.
What a great find these compact hard cover books are and at unbelievable prices for mines of information.
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.Tuscany (Art & Architecture) (Art & Architecture)

by: Anne Mueller von der Haegen

February 15, 2006
Smaller than the usual coffee table editions but have as much or maybe even more inside.
What a great find these compact hard cover books are and at unbelievable prices for mines of information.
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.Francesco's Venice : Complete BBC Series

starring: Francesco Da Mosto

June 19, 2006
Francescos Venice
This dvd is absolutely fantastic,I have been to Venice on several occasions and love the place,this dvd is very accurate and explains history of Venice very well,anyone wanting to go to Venice would be better purchasing this dvd as it will give information what Venice is all about.
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.Louvre (Art & Architecture) (Art & Architecture)

by: Gabriele Bartz, Eberhard Konigm

February 15, 2006
I purchased this volume for a trip with a school party (GCSE & A level) that included the Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre.

The book, although weighty, is ideally shaped to live in a handbag, manbag, or even a roomy pocket (although in that case, get the Louvre one as well and balance yourself so as not to look like Quasimodo...).

The pictures are clear, the notes are superb, and I certainly wouldn't have been without it. Hundreds of pictures, hundreds of pages. All for £7 or so. Brilliant.
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.Francesco's Venice

by: Francesco da Mosto

February 08, 2007
I have read this book twice! This book will tell you all you need to know about Venice. Its well written which makes it an easy read, so many books have been written on Venice, but one is clear and broken down into key sections.


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.Venice Revealed: An Intimate Portrait

by: Paolo Barbaro

April 30, 2002
I started reading this just after a trip to Venice. I found the first chapter or so a struggle, my feeling is the translation from the Italian is a little odd and a number of times I had to re read sentences to work out what was being said.
However, I persisted and once i got used to the style I found the book evoked so many memories of the feel of Venice. It is not about the tourist sights, it tells you about the heart and soul of the city and as such I would recommend it to anyone who wants to dig below the gondolas and the glassware and get a little closer to what Venice is really about.
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.A History of Venice

by: John Julius Norwich

July 03, 2003
This review refers to the 2003 Penguin edition, which consists of what had been two separate books issued in 1977 and 1981 respectively, namely "Venice: The Rise to Empire" and "Venice: The Greatness and Fall". Both books had been combined into one volume by Penguin in 1983. (For those wanting details of the city's history after 1797, John Julius Norwich has produced a quasi-successor volume, "Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth Century Visitors", but, as its title indicates, this is as much concerned with prominent outsiders than with the city itself.)

Since the one-volume history was published in 1983, there has been no revision of the text; neither has there been an update of the bibliography nor the writing of a new introduction. ... Read More:
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.Venice

by: Jan Morris

October 07, 2004
I decided to read "Venice" in preparation for a week-long stay in the Italian city.

Broken into three sections -- The People, The City, The Lagoon -- "Venice" is not a chronological history of the city but a meandering look at its past, present and future. Nor is it a guidebook, although it does contain a mine of information about what to see and where to go.

I think "The Times" probably described it best when they said it was "a classic love letter to Italy's most iconic city", because it is, indeed, a beautiful missive dripping with exquisite descriptions. I found it an enormously engaging and evocative read by an accomplished writer who really knows how to string a simile or two together.For example: "Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, ... Read More:
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.Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs

by: Regine Schulz, Matthias Seidel

1998-05
Of all the many fine books published on Ancient Egypt this is the only one that gives a full picture of the cultures from Paleolithic to Arabic times in a single volume.
Lavishly illustrated with superb quality photographs and graphics and excellent articles by leading scholars.
It is frequently recommended as a wonderful introductory volume to students by many Egyptologists.
We have found it invaluable as a source book for preparing our lectures.
Highly recommended.
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