I’m very happy to share a link to the blog of my friend Philip Gwynne Jones, who gives an account of our joint book-presentation last Saturday at Laguna Libre in Cannaregio, Venice. My opinion of his novel, The Venetian Game, can be found in my blurb for it:...
I’m very grateful to Michelle Lovric for once again hosting me on the History Girls website. This time we talk about the 18th century, some Venetian terms, the Fourth Crusade, and a few other matters connected with The Four Horsemen. Oh, and Byron comes into it...
“We leaned against a shop front just in front of the church’s facade; the pompous statues and curious bas-reliefs were dimly visible in the moonlight.” (Chapter 22) Santa Maria del Giglio has one of the most extravagantly grandiose church-facades in...
Sant’Elena has definitely changed since the 18th century. The most obvious change is that you can now walk to it. In the novel Alvise has to hire a boat to get there. The map at the back of the book shows Sant’Elena as a small island some distance from the easternmost...
Chapter 12: He [Bepi] was staring across the canal at the façade of the church. It is not one of Venice’s most famous buildings but it has a charming bas-relief of the Adoration of the Magi over the doorway. Sant’Isepo (Venetian for San Giuseppe or St Joseph) is...
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