Eminent music historian H.C. Robbins Landon and acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich combine their talents in examining the unique role of music in the life of Venice and Venice in the life of music. A lavishly illustrated celebration that truly captures the spirit and music of this beautiful city. 200 illustraions, 49 in full color. Discography.

Five Centuries of Music in Venice

Arts & Photography

NORWICH,John Julius

Landon, H.C.Robbins

Music

Schirmer Reference

Venice: a Travellers' Companion: A Travellers' Companion (The Travellers' Companion Series)

Travel

Europe

Constable

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History Of Venice

History

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Penguin Uk

'He is brilliant...He writes like the most cultivated modern diplomat attached by a freak of time to the Byzantine court, with intimate knowledge, tactful judgment and a consciousness of the surviving monuments' - "Independent". In this exciting narrative history, John Julius Norwich, one of most accomplished popular historians, reveals the beginning of Byzantium. He tells of the five formative centuries of an empire that would enthrall the western world for more than eleven hundred years.

Byzantium #1 The Early Centuries

In Byzantium: The Early Centuries John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800 – when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of his magnificent history covers the following three centuries. In it he continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081. The other two volumes in the trilogy, Byzantium: The Early Centuries and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, are also published in Penguin.

Byzantium - The Apogee (v. 2)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune. The terrible siege of Constantinople in 1453 ended the empire, founded in the year 330, which Lord Norwich has devoted many years to re-creating; this volume forms the climax to an epic sequence of books.

Byzantium #3 The Decline And Fall

In 1016, a rebel Lombard lord appealed to a group of pilgrims for help-and unwittingly set in motion "the other Norman Conquest." The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville: of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caesar and Napoleon; his brother Roger, who helped him win Sicily from the Saracens; and his nephew Roger II, crowned at Palermo in 1130. The Kingdom in the Sun vividly evokes this "sad, superb, half-forgotten kingdom, cultivated, cosmopolitan, and tolerant," which lasted a mere 64 years. It concludes with the poignant defeat of the bastard King Tancred in 1194, bringing to a close this extraordinary chapter in Italian history. With a comprehensive listing of all of Sicily's surviving Norman monuments, the result is a superb traveler's companion and a masterpiece of the historian's art.

The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194

Penguin Global

John Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' - Peter Levi, "The Sunday Times".

World

50 Years Glyndebourne

Random House of Canada Ltd.

A History of Venice

VIKING

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Five Centuries of Music in Venice

Venice: a Travellers' Companion: A Travellers' Companion (The Travellers' Companion Series)

History Of Venice

Byzantium #1 The Early Centuries

Byzantium - The Apogee (v. 2)

Byzantium #3 The Decline And Fall

The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194

History Of Venice

50 Years Glyndebourne

A History of Venice