Venice Tales (City Tales) Picture Books for a troubling new era

for a troubling new era

including archival photographs

While Allied leaders in London prepared for the cross-Channel invasion of France later that spring

But nothing with fairies is ever simple

Venice Tales (City Tales) Picture Books for a troubling new eraVenice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream like city uniquely built on water, Venice was a hub of trade with the East and the