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19.5.2013
My
spies tell me that a brand new German Brunetti TV episode was
broadcast last week. They called it Auf Treu und Glauben
(In Good Faith), but we know it as A Question of Belief.
The action mostly centred around Cannaregio this time, with a
funeral in the Madonna Dell'Orto.
9.5.2013
Back
from a wonderful week in Munich to wonderful news from Venice -
billionaire art collector Francois Pinault's hated statue of the naked boy
with the frog has been taken down for the last and final time.
Read the story
here. And staying with good news: David Adams Cleveland, who
wrote With a gem-like flame, a Venice-set novel we liked,
writes with news of a new novel, Love's attraction also
with a Venice setting. Expect a review very
soon.
30.4 -
7.5.2013
I'm
spending a week in Munich, and you can follow my
Munich Trip Report
or not,
it's entirely up to you.
20.4.2013
Episode
2 of Da Vinci's Demons was less flashy and less
spectacular, faked-Florence-wise, but provided enough
flavoursome plot-thickening to hold the attention. In recent
promotional interviews Tom Riley, the actor who plays Leonardo,
has promised that episodes 3 and 4 will deal with our hero's
sexuality and the fact of its not being merely hetero. So we'll
wait and see how this is handled. Also, it's just been announced
that there will be a second season, and that two Marvel comics
writers have been hired to write some episodes.
13.4.2013
The
slick new series about Leonardo's early life
Da Vinci's Demons
has just started and it's as authentic as you'd imagine, i.e.
not very. The creator
David S. Goyer has previously been involved in superhero
films and video games, which as a keen watcher of superhero
films and player of video games I should not be too sniffy
about, I suppose, but the concentration on what's fashionable
over what really happened makes this so much more a product of
its time than of all time. Not that I'm not hooked, though. And
we still have the new Dan Brown, which is also set in Florence,
top look forward to in a month's time. And I'm sure that it'll
be just oozing authenticity.
2.4.2013
Keep it
to yourself (winks and taps side of nose) but by means nefarious
I have obtained an e-copy of the new Donna Leon, The Golden
Egg, so expect a review before the week's end. And for after
the Donna I've just received The Exiled Blade, the final
part of Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Assassini trilogy, printed on
actual paper!
24.3.2013
Just
so you know - I've just booked a week in Venice in late June.
Last year I didn't visit even the once, so this'll be my first
trip there since September 2011. As this site's hit rate has
gone unprecedentedly down this past year I was thinking that
maybe I needed to refocus on Venice, as it's the most popular
city and I had maybe allowed my refreshed enthusiasm for
Florence to hold too much sway. But yesterday's Guardian had a
review by Christobel Kent (whose new book I've just reviewed) of
the Rupert Thomson book I reviewed last month. They are the only
new books I've reviewed so far this year, and both are set in
Florence. Next week there's a new drama-documentary on Sky about
Leonardo Da Vinci, starring Peter Capaldi, that's getting very
good previews indeed. And there's a new US TV series called
Da Vinci's Demons, which premieres in Florence on April 2nd,
with its first broadcast later in the month. It was filmed
largely in...Swansea Bay and Port Talbot! It stars mostly
English actors, though, so it might not be total crap. It looks
very Game of Thrones, with very some very HD CG views of
Florence and that actress who played Irene Adler in the recent
BBC Sherlock. Bearing all of this in mind - how's
a chap to please his Veniceophile fans when all there is on the
horizon for them is the new Brunetti?
more
news here
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May 2013
David Adams Cleveland Love's attraction
Venice
April 2013
Da Vinci's
Demons Florence TV
Jon Courtenay Grimwood The Exiled Blade
Venice
Donna Leon The Golden Egg
Venice
March 2013
Christobel Kent A
Darkness Descending
Florence
Suffer the Little Children,
The Girl of his Dreams
and About Face
Brunetti TV series
February 2013
Avenger of Venice
Venice films
Magdalen Nabb Death
of an Englishman
Florence
The Lost Moment
Venice films
Rupert Thomson Secrecy Florence
Who was Edgar Allen?
Venice films
The Venetian Affair
Venice films
Infanzia, vocazione e prime
esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano
Venice films
January 2013
The
Protectors Venice TV
Dennis
Wheatley The Rape of Venice
Venice
The Thief of Venice
Venice films
E. Temple Thurston The City of Beautiful Nonsense
Venice
Helen Humphreys The
Frozen Thames
London
Philip Davies London - Hidden
Interiors
London
Alessandro Barbaro The Eyes of Venice Venice
December 2012
Alana White The Sign of the Weeping Virgin Florence
November 2012
Christobel Kent
A Fine and Private Place Florence
October 2012
Nancy
Huston Infrared
Florence
Terry
Pratchett Dodger
London
Donna Leon
The Jewels of Paradise Venice
September 2012
Lucretia
Grindle Villa Triste Florence
Simon Barnes
Venetia
Venice
August 2012
Linda
Proud
A Gift for the Magus Florence
Ben Aaronovitch
Whispers Under Ground
London
July 2012
Marco Vichi
Death
in Sardinia Florence
June 2012
Maxim
Jakubowski, ed. Venice Noir Venice
Tonya Macalino Faces in
the Water Venice
Paul Strathern
The Spirit of Venice Venice
Giacomo C.
Venice comics
The lost
historic centre Florence
May 2012
Sarah Bruce Kelly Vivaldi's Muse
Venice
Michael Dibdin A Rich
Full Death Florence
Donna Leon
Beastly Things Venice
Christobel Kent The Dead Season Florence

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