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27.1.2010
It's funny isn't it, how if you
don't know that something exists you can't know how empty your
life has been without it? No, I'm not talking about the iPad,
I'm talking about Carabinieri-hat-shaped chocolates. There's a
photo, in case you don't believe me, on my
news page.
18.1.2010
A date for all Venice-lovers'
diaries. On the 1st of June this year's Venice in Peril summer
lecture
The Night Venice Nearly Died - The
conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo 1310–2010
will be given by our mate Michelle Lovric, who'll be introduced
by John Julius Norwich.
The conspiracy makes for a gripping story,
involving the planned murder of Doge Pietro Gradenigo, and was dramatically (and bizarrely) foiled. The contemporary
relevance is provided by the continued confinement of the
commemorative Column of Infamy which was made and erected so
that this event should no be forgotten, but which remains
woefully undisplayed in remote storeroom of the
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The lecture is at The Royal Geographical
Society in Kensington SW London and tickets are
available
here. See you there.
11.1.2010
Still looking forward...the immediate
future seems to hold few new novels set in Venice. There's the
new Donna Leon (A Question of Belief) in April, as
ever, and a cash-in cookbook (A
Taste of Venice: At Table with Brunettis)
is promised too. I'd be surprised if I was disappointed by the
former, but expect to be by the latter. Although my mouth is
watering at the prospect of Donna L's own favourite - the
pumpkin risotto. But the new-novel dearth means I'll be
attacking my backlog of older books. You know what they say
about clouds.
6.1.2010
It's
good to have something to look forward to, is it not? The London
National Gallery's big winter exhibition, beginning on the 13th
of October 2010, is going to be
Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals. We're promised a
major show, with loans from private and public collections,
including the Queen's, and also works by
Carlevarijs, Marieschi, Bellotto and Guardi.
Me, I'm also looking forward to a trip to Venice in May.
30.12.2009
A
bit of a grim festive season for Venetian residents with the joys
of snowy blankets soon turning to tricky ice and bad floods. There are photos on the BBC
website, and on my news page.
7.12.2009
My
Garden of Eden page is not the one
I get the least correspondence about, and all you GofE fans out
there might like to know that there was a Twenty
Minutes
program
about the place on BBC Radio 3 last week. Click here
to find out more. And I found a fascinating-looking article about
Venetian gardens on ebay last week too, with a fair few pages
about the GofE. But I've bought it now and will add any juicy
stuff I glean from it to the page.
And in even better
news - I'm an author! I made a book out of my trip reports and
have self-published it using Lulu.com.
I got my first copy through the post today and, well, what can I
say? It's a thing of great beauty. I can see now why they call
this vanity publishing. Click the Lulu button above to see, and
buy!
more
news here
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1.2010
Jason Goodwin The
Bellini Card Venice
1.2010 Andrew
Losowsky The
Doorbells of Florence
Florence
12. 2009 Muriel Spark
Territorial Rights Venice
12.2009 Kazuo
Ishiguro Nocturnes
Venice
12.2009 Norman
Collins London
belongs to me London
11.2009
H. Reyes and K. Derbyshire eds.
city-lit
Berlin Berlin
11.2009
Ashkin Ozcan The
Second Venice Venice
11.2009
Mickey Friedman
Venetian Mask
10.2009
David Hewson
Lucifer's shadow
Venice
10.2009 The
Abandoned Ospedale
al Mare page
Venice
9.2009 P.
M. Pasinetti Venetian
Red Venice
9.2009
Peter Ackroyd Venice:
Pure City Venice
8.2009
Louis Begley Venice
for Lovers Venice
8.2009
Ariana Franklin City
of Shadows Berlin
8.2009
Vasco Pratolini A
tale of poor lovers Florence
7.2009
Christobel Kent A
Time of Mourning Florence
7.2009
Philip Reeve Fever
Crumb London
7.2009
Obsession
Florence films
6.2009 Michelle
Lovric The
Undrowned Child Venice
6.2009
Heather Reyes ed. city-lit
- London
6.2009 Chloe
Aridjis Book
of Clouds Berlin
5.2009
Iain Fenlon Piazza
San Marco Venice
5.2009
The
Abandoned Islands of the Venetian Lagoon Venice
5.2009
A-Z
Atlas and Guide to London 1930s
Facsimile London
5.2009
In
memory of me Venice
films
4.2009 Toni Sepeda
Brunetti's
Venice Venice
4.2009 Donna
Leon About
Face Venice
4.2009 Edward
Sklepowich The
Veils of Venice Venice
4.2009
Elle Newmark The
Book of Unholy Mischief Venice
3.2009
Mark Frutkin The
Lion of Venice Venice
3.2009
Night
Train to Venice Venice
films
3.2009 Sophie Masson The
Madman of Venice Venice
3.2009
Geoff Dyer Jeff
in Venice, Death in Varanasi Venice
2.2009
L.M. Jackson A
most dangerous woman London
2.2009
Jenny
Linford The
London Cookbook London
2.2009
Brideshead
Revisited 2008
Venice films
1.2009
Ward
Lock London Guide Book c.1940
London
1.2009
The
Donna Leon TV Series Venice
films
1.2009 Affinity
London films
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