Ranging from the days of the 6th century--when the early lagoon-dwellers lived "like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers" to the exquisite city of 18th-

The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume

An armchair traveler’s companion to Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries: “a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs” (Tom Nolan, The

A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.