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Venice and Its Story

by Thomas Okey

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Thomas Okey's history of Venice first appeared in October 1903, and this is the third, revised edition of 1910, illustrated by Nelly Erichsen and others for J. M. Dent. The preface treats the city as a state of rare permanence and stability, and takes its facts from old chronicles and from the Triestine scholar Samuele Romanin, author of a documented history of Venice.

For description, Okey divides the city and the lagoon islands into twenty sections, ordered by historical and artistic weight more than by map. Ruskin is named as the classic writer on its architecture and painting. Bellini's portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan serves as frontispiece.

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Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey (1852-1935) came from a poor East End family of hereditary basket makers and was apprenticed to the trade at thirteen, following it for more than thirty years. Largely self-taught, he studied French, German, and Italian over breakfast before a 6 a.m.

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Pages
416
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English
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