Tropic of Venice

by Margaret Doody

Book Overview

Named one of the "Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006" by ForeWord magazine

For Margaret Doody, Venice, poised between East and West, earth and sea, sacred and profane, occupies a place only its own. Appearances confound. Renaissance ladies achieved their blond beauty by crimping and dyeing their hair in urine. The richly ornamented facades of its buildings mask lighter structures based on wood pilings ultimately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239849
• ISBN13: 9780812239843
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"