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A fascinating collection of anecdotes and potted biographies about famous people who visited venice in the nineteenth century

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Some of the characters dealt with at length seem nonentities distinguished only by their inherited wealth

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The felicity or otherwise of norwichs choice of characters will naturally depend on each readers preferences one reviewer notes the ommission of mark twain

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Whatever the meaning one can imagine the humiliation the poor woman must have endured married for several years to that insensitive freak

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All in all the books an interesting if not comprehensive review of some of venices most famous visitors and inhabitants during a politically fraught and tempestuous era

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It has everything intrique passion extravagances and yes sexual escapades

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The book is becoming a history twice while describing the end of republic and napoleons rape of venice and later in the chapter about the revolution of 184849

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By the time covered by this book however the city had lost its political independence and power being conquered by napoleon at the beginning of the 1800s and then being passed on to austria as well as its economic importance as new trade routes were developed as the us developed as an economic power causing trade with the west to eclipse trade with the east