I listened to another radio programme - a series of excerpts from The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice by Polly Coles- but even then, among the material on Moldovan immigrant workers there was the usual modern-rarefied-Venice stuff about Contessas in decaying palazzos.

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He was horrified, it is said, to find pubic hair because he’d only ever seen a Greek statue of a woman. Generally I don't like stories with excessive descriptive paragraphs or that run on about how lovely the garden is. The absolute other end of paintings to go and see would be the Carpaccios in the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, which is behind San Marco. There are still PLENTY of books on this list that don't seem to have anything to do with Venice whatsoever!Paris was the biggest, but Venice outdid London, Rome and other early medieval European cities in population even though its actual size was so small. They manage it very politely and to be honest, when we went it was a slow queueing snake working a way through, out to the area where sure footed folk climbed to the top of a pile of books, took a 'Selfie' or had a colleague record the moment, climbed down again (after being reminded by a pleasant enough seated chap that it was obviously a 'one way system = and contrary to what one Reviewer said there is no requirement to make a donation'! We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. Morris loves the word froward: I went from 'how lovely, it's too long since I've heard that' to becoming sick of its overuse in the second half.

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So he set up Marghera, which is both negative in that it has caused terrible petrochemical pollution, but also provided employment. In these mighty halls the senate of the world might deliberate, and in the cavernous recesses of the Basilica, glimmering and aromatic, all the divinities might sit in reconciliation. For example at the Carita, the nunnery that was turned into the Accademia, there’s a cloister inside that was done by him. One ends up being the governor of Candia, which is Crete, and the other is the governor of another town on the mainland, in Istria.I made many bookmarks about the quirks and landmarks, and some history anecdotes, that I will definitely go back and review before my upcoming trip. They must have been waiting for the ink to splotch at any moment, and for the whole thing to be wasted. We revisited this beautiful church on our latest trip to Venice and again enjoyed the lovely views of Venice and the surrounding lagoon. Later, bricks had to come from Treviso or somewhere on terra firma and timber had to come first from the pine forest along the coast and from oaks in the hills and then later from further round into Istria. What I wanted to do with my book, I suppose, is get past the crowds and the bad effects of mass tourism.

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Someone would bring a plant from the botanical gardens in the morning, and these Irish masons would carve that plant into the building. His ideas were behind the Natural History Museum in Oxford being built, and the O’Shea brothers carving those extraordinary capitals. Similar attitudes underlie a lot of British children's literature of the same age, which mean it conjures a nostalgic, cosy atmosphere for some of us who grew up on books like and became wired to imagine ourselves in the place of the characters and narrators. Occasionally you do find yourself inadvertently walking to the station at five o’clock in the evening or going along the Riva degli Schiavoni in front of the Bridge of Sighs at midday, elbowing your way along shoulder to shoulder, and you think, ‘This is absolute hell on earth. Venice once ruled an empire that stretched across the eastern Mediterranean, but by the early modern period was already evolving into a city whose greatest claim to fame was as a tourist destination.What she packed into those 94 years is a better story, I venture to say, than anything she ever wrote, and she wrote well. It’s got such a bearing not just on how you read Venice, but on how you read our own built environment.