La Repubblica del Leone: Storia di Venezia

Milano: Rusconi, 1984. Hardbound. NF/NF. Red cloth with black lettering; color-pictorial dj; 757 pp. with 12 color illustrations, including two maps; grey cloth-covered hard board slipcase;. Text in Italian; the history of Venice from its beginnings as a virtual swampland to the city of decadence full of wealthy families living in 285 grand houses; the Venice of Marco Polo, art, utopian democracy, art, and, overall, the epic story of a miraculous culture that has endured for more than a millennium.