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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book explores how the Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of Venice in complex and contradictory ways to shape urban space and reshape Christian-
Language: en
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