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Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
$55.95 AUD
Category: European
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization, th ...Show more
Whispering City - Modern Rome and Its Histories by R J B Bosworth
$50.95 AUD
Category: European
In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as 'not a human dwelling place but a mental entity', in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment buildings in layers of brick, mortar, and memory. This book accepts Freud's challeng ...Show more
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