Venice

Lion City: The Religion of Empire

By: Garry Wills

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Paperback | 3 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Garry Wills's "Venice: Lion City" is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire.

"Venice: Lion City" presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. It is illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color. Garry Wills gives us a unique view of Venice's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, its Jews, and its women as they created a city that is the greatest art museum in the world, a city whose allure remains undiminished after centuries.

Like Simon Schama's "The Embarrassment of Riches, " on the Dutch culture in the Golden Age, "Venice: Lion City" will take its place as a classic work of history and criticism.

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Harpers Professor Wills's Venice is indescribably rich, coming as it does under the French ideal of total history -- politics, religion, daily life, art, architecture, wars, and men and women who seem to have walked out of Shakespeare.
Los Angeles Times Book Review A book to read and reread and treasure.
The New York Times Book Review Excellent...ingenious...the best popular guide in years.
The Washington Post Profoundly impressive...Nobody interested in Venice could fail to be excited by reading Wills's book.

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Key to Brief Citations	p. 9
Introduction: Athens of the Renaissance	p. 11
Imperial Disciplines	p. 25
Contract with Mark	p. 27
Declarations of Independence	p. 37
The Lion's Wings	p. 47
The Lion's Tread	p. 61
Disciplines of Time	p. 73
Disciplines of Work	p. 85
Imperial Personnel	p. 93
Doge	p. 95
Patricians (Nobili)	p. 111
Notables (Cittadini)	p. 123
Golden Youth	p. 135
Commoners (Popolani)	p. 149
Women	p. 157
Artists	p. 169
Outsiders	p. 181
Imperial Piety	p. 193
Christ's Blood	p. 195
Christ's Cross	p. 207
Venetian Annunciations	p. 215
The Vulnerable Mary	p. 225
Mark: The Relic	p. 235
Mark: The Life	p. 247
War Saints: George and Theodore	p. 253
Plague Saints	p. 263
The Other Lion: Jerome's	p. 271
Imperial Learning	p. 283
Franciscan Learning	p. 285
Dominican Learning	p. 297
Book Learning	p. 305
Learned Architecture: Codussi	p. 315
Learned Architecture: Sansovino, Palladio	p. 325
Learned Sculpture	p. 335
Learned Politics	p. 341
Learned History	p. 357
Epilogue: A Farewell to Empire	p. 367
Notes	p. 373
Some Leading Dates	p. 399
Acknowledgments	p. 401
Index	p. 402
Photo Credits	p. 416
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