The city of falling angels
Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble-foundations shift, marble ornaments fall-even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective-inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.
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- ISBN: 1594200580
- ISBN: 0143036939
- Physical Description 414 pages
- Publisher New York : Penguin, 2005.
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General Note: | Map on endpapers. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 36.00 |
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