Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo per l’avventura e per la

per l’avventura e per la scienza

La navigazione fino all’isola si svolge infatti senza intoppi

riaccendono i desideri messi a tacere

Trasformati dai secoli o conservati nella loro antica struttura

Venice a traveller's reader Marco Polo per l’avventura e per laHenry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly propped on its long row of thick legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner,