Books

Paolo Barbaro Venice Revealed: An Intimate Portrait

Marlena de Blasi A Thousand Days in Venice

Giacomo Casanova The History of My Life

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Arturo Colamussi Islands of the Venetian Lagoon, an Aerial Guide

Robert Dessaix Night letters

Mary Hoffman Stravaganza, City of Masks

Deborah Howard Venice and the East

Deborah Howard The Architectural History of Venice

William Dean Howells Venetian Life

Mary Laven Virgins of Venice, Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent

Mary McCarthy Venice Observed

Pompeo Molmenti Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the Republic

Jan Morris Venice

John Julius Norwich Paradise of Cities

Juan Manuel de Prada The Tempest

Barry Unsworth The Stone Virgin

Tiziano Scarpa Venice is a Fish

Jeanette Winterson The Passion

Websites

www.fictionalcities.co.uk a wonderful website with synopses and reviews of novels, films and cultural highlights in London, Florence and Venice.

www.veniceword.com on this site you can subscribe to a free email letter in English about Venice.

www.venice-art-tours.com the best art and history walks around Venice.

www.europeanbookshop.com on this site you will also find books from The Italian Bookshop in London’s Cecil Court.

www.poetryschool.com runs writing courses of all kinds, including residential courses in Venice.

www.venetian_legends.it ghost stories and legends.

www.churchesofvenice.co.uk history, architecture and odd stories.

www.venessia.com campaigns, history and anecdote.

www.icilondon.esteri.it Italian Cultural Institute in London.

www.newsontherialto.org cultural exchange for Venetian scholars.