{"id":544056,"date":"2010-01-11T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d17e553ef0120a7c55206970b"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:59:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:59:05","slug":"venice-by-way-of-hup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544056","title":{"rendered":"Venice by way of HUP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/o:smarttagtype><\/o:smarttagtype>\"Intro_image_mcgregor\"<\/a>
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Whenever isobars descend from Greenland
\n(damn<\/em> you, high pressure!), we
\nindulge in two forms of escapist Internet window shopping: first for summer clothing,
\nand second for airline tickets to someplace far away, and warmer. Thanks to a stripy-gondolier-shirt revival<\/a>*<\/span><\/span>,
\na Venn diagram charting both of our guilty habits would show a single point of
\nconvergence: Venice.\"Venn_diagram\"<\/a>
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>It turns out that the Queen of the Adriatic
\nis an incomparable destination for armchair travel, regardless of which
\nInternet vices brought you there. Perhaps in recognition of this quality, we at
\nHUP have published a number of books on Venice,
\nmost recently Iain Fenlon\u2019s<\/span> <\/span>Piazza San
\nMarco<\/a><\/em> and the third and final volume of Bembo\u2019s iconic History of Venice in its first English
\ntranslation<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"FENSAI\"<\/a>  In his study of St. Mark\u2019s Square, Fenlon shows that the evolution
\nof the space Napoleon is supposed to have called \u201cthe finest drawing-room in
\nEurope\u201d<\/span> <\/span>from marketplace to parade ground to tourist haven<\/span> <\/span>has been a
\nbarometer for Venice\u2019s fortunes. Like the other books in the Wonders of the World series<\/a>, <\/span><\/span>Piazza San
\nMarco<\/em> peels back the varnish
\nconferred by landmark status to reveal the complex, colorful, and noisy
\nevolution of an iconic place.
<\/span><\/p>\n

 Venice<\/a><\/em> from the Ground Up<\/em> <\/a> (no,
\nyou\u2019re not the first to think it \"MCGVEN\"<\/a>
should be  \u2026from
\nthe Water Up) offers another close-up view of the city. An installment in
\nour  From the Ground Up<\/a> series,
\nit guides readers through the history of the city by way of its canals and
\nlandmarks.
<\/span><\/p>\n

In a literary vein, Tony Tanner\u2019s
\ngorgeous <\/span>Venice Desired<\/a><\/em> 
\ncharts the encounters of writers including Ruskin, Byron, Henry James, Proust,
\nand Pound with what Ruskin called \u201cthis amphibious city<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span>this Phocaea, or
\nsea-dog of towns,<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span>looking with soft human eyes at you from the sand, Proteus
\nhimself latent in the salt-smelling skin of her.\u201d If the striped shirts didn\u2019t
\nseduce you, surely Ruskin will. (Note that Tanner\u2019s similarly warm, elegant,
\nand fascinating <\/span>Prefaces to Shakespeare<\/a><\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span>including of course, reflections on The
\nMerchant of Venice<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span>will be out this spring.) 
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cWhatever roughness rage, some
\nexquisite sea-thing\/ Will surely rise to save.\u201d That\u2019s Byron, in Don Juan<\/em>. And Tanner
\nsays: \u201cThe lines suit equally well whether you believe in Venus, or Venice. Or, of course,
\nboth.\u201d
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Third_McGregor\"<\/a>
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are worse places to daydream
\nabout on a winter\u2019s day.  <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>* Here at HUP, we get all our fashion news from the Wall
\nStreet Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Photos from <\/em>Venice from the Ground Up
<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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