WE AGREE: PATTI, GO TO VENICE!(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ......News Travel Editor Patti Thorn, go to Venice! Although I didn't identify her by name...was somewhat skeptical when I told her Venice, and asked me to ask my readers. Well...guess what the overwhelming choice is? Venice. Oh, there were a few other places mentioned...

Black Venice: Conspiracy and Narrative Masquerade in Schiller, Zschokke,...

Gothic Studies;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Recent writings on Venice as a set of signs have emphasised long-standi...similar evocations of Shelley and Emerson.1 Venice is a place of 'darkness', enhanced by...comprehensive description I can find of 'black Venice' is by Tony Tanner: The fact that, in...

A History of Venice, by John ...

The Washington Post;  October 19, 2003 ;     293 words ...A History of Venice, by John Julius Norwich (Vintage, 1982...of the republic in 1797. The World of Venice, by Jan Morris (Harvest, revised ed...of the character, culture and quirks of Venice and the Venetians. Venice Observed, by...

Venice wonderland

The Hindustan Times;  April 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......If I had ever been told that my first visit to Venice would be in the company of a strange man, I would have laughed aloud. After all isn't Venice, quaint, watery Venice, a city where lovers go? Its winding canals and...

The magic of Venice still flows; La Serenissima retains beauty brilliant...

The Washington Times;  September 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......THE WASHINGTON TIMES The merchants of Venice are alive and thriving. A visitor isn...but should bring bags full of euros. Venice - half fairy tale and half tourist trap...Lithuanian-born painter and sculptor, Venice is like an abandoned theater. The play...

In Venice, food is true art; Seafood delights prized in city famed for...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In the weeks before we left for Venice, our first overseas holiday, my husband...there are no McDonald's restaurants in Venice. You can't order chicken nuggets in Italy...Barcelona, Spain, waiting for a taxi at Venice's Marco Polo Airport that the poor kid...

Venice, Florida; No gondolas, but a lovely old-town feel amid the palm...

U.S. News & World Report;  October 1, 2007 ;     470 words ...Byline: David LaGesse Coming into downtown Venice, Fla., feels a bit like slipping back...walkable neighborhoods. It's no accident. Venice was designed to re-create the atmosphere...whatever, says Paul Cline, who retired to Venice with his wife, Diane, nine years ago...

Alas, that's the way the city crumbles Brutal repairs are destroying the...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the Dordogne, today it is apartments in Venice. For those seeking a second home with...slap of water against a canal at night, Venice is a city without peer. For years, wealthy Italians have had weekend homes in Venice. Now, thanks partly to cheap flights...

VENICE // Love and dreams on a watery stage

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 26, 1989 ;     700+ words ...VENICE Most cities are clearly the work of architects and engineers. But Venice seems more like the creation of a theatrical set designer...strangely imperious and introverted, that gives everything in Venice an unpredictable twist. So what exactly does a set designer...

On Not Seeing Venice.

American Scholar;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...I have never been to Venice and have no wish to go. People say, you must go to Venice, you'll love it. But they said the same about another...York: streets of desolation, towers of emptiness. Venice, once velvet and marble, is now tense with clingfilm...

Expensive Venice rapidly losing residents

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 1, 1988 ;     666 words ...VENICE, Italy One of the world's most enchanting cities was founded 15 centuries ago among 118 islets in the Gulf of Venice by frightened citizens who sought refuge from a southward...century descendants are fleeing in the other direction. Venice has become too expensive for its natives. Alarmed by the...

VENICE IN FILM: THE POSTCARD AND THE PALIMPSEST

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The popularity of Venice as a film location is unremarkable. Venice offers a setting synonymous with the architectural and...achievements of western civilization. For this reason Venice is also a clich-a museum without walls that no one needs...

A Floating World; How expatriate intellectuals made the Romantic myth of...

The Washington Post;  October 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PARADISE OF CITIES: Venice in the 19th Century By John Julius Norwich...humiliating defeat at the hands of Napoleon, Venice had been the richest, most powerful...gave up without a fight. In consequence, Venice entered the 19th century an impoverished...

A vision of Venice

New Straits Times;  September 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......New Straits Times 09-02-2000 A vision of Venice Byline: Sarban Singh Edition: Life and...beautiful cities in the world, picturesque Venice has long captured the imagination of poets...are famous names closely associated with Venice, reputed to be the most photogenic city...

Shakespeare's Venetian paradigm: stereotyping and Sadism in The Merchant...

Papers on Language & Literature;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Renaissance literary commonplaces about Venice find scant confirmation in Shakespeare's Venetian plays: The Merchant of Venice and Othello. For the Earls of Southampton...many literate English Protestants, Venice was the model of republican government...