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Venetian Dreaming. [A Dice Game; The Bronxness of Venice; Arriva!; Coming Up Roses; Our Doge; The House of Good Neighbors; Social Dancing; Peggy Guggenheim and I; A Merchant Ivory Production; Meeting Pinocchio; Dead in Venice; etc
by Weideger, Paula. [design, John Vairo, Jr., Melissa Isriprashad; photos, Tomio Takahashi, Kate Milford; map, Giovanni Merlo
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New York : Atria Books, 2002., 2002. Fine. 1st Atria Books hardcover printing ; xiii, 347 pp. ; map ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0671047299; 9780671047290 LCCN: 2002-510579 ; LC: DG675.6; Dewey: 945.3/093 ; OCLC: 49908262 ; scuffed white and gold cloth with metallic red lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; "We accompany Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, meets nobility and boatmen, artists and fish mongers. We learn how she makes peace with the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim, how her home is threatened, if briefly, by the Merchant Ivory crowd, and how she manages to survive both high water and high drama with her landlady, along with much more. Weideger's vision of Venice--wry, intelligent and love struck, if occasionally blurred by tears--is at once haunting and down-to-earth.:"-- dustjacket ; remainder mark on bottom, else FINE/FINE
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Who hasn't longed to escape to the enchanting canals and mysterious alleyways of Venice? Globetrotting writer Paula Weideger not only dreamed the dream, she took the leap. In Venetian Dreaming, she charts the course of her love affair with one of the world's most treasured cities. Weideger's search for a place to live eventually takes her to the Palazzo Donà dalle Rose, one of the rare Venetian palaces continuously inhabited by the family that built it. She weaves the past lives of the family Donà with her own adventures as she threads her way through the labyrinthine city. Art and architecture are a constant presence. Yet even more strongly felt is the passage of time, the panorama of the seasons as reflected in special events -- Carnival, the Film Festival, September's historic regatta, midnight mass at San Marco. We follow Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, the expatriate community, and the lives of locals from noblemen to boatmen. Along the way she encounters everyone from the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim to the Merchant Ivory crowd, and experiences some high drama with the Contessa, her landlady. The resulting memoir is a wry and illuminating, intelligent and tender account of the once grand heritage and now imperiled future of Venice.
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- Title
- Venetian Dreaming. [A Dice Game; The Bronxness of Venice; Arriva!; Coming Up Roses; Our Doge; The House of Good Neighbors; Social Dancing; Peggy Guggenheim and I; A Merchant Ivory Production; Meeting Pinocchio; Dead in Venice; etc
- Author
- Weideger, Paula. [design, John Vairo, Jr., Melissa Isriprashad; photos, Tomio Takahashi, Kate Milford; map, Giovanni Merlo
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York : Atria Books, 2002.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- venice italy travel description peggy guggenheim ivory merchants carmen miranda
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