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Venice (Unabridged): Introduction by Jan Morris
08:20
Venice (Unabridged): Venice by Jan Morris read by Sebastian Comberti
05:08
Venice (Unabridged): The estuaries of three virile rivers first formed…
05:17
Venice (Unabridged): The People – Chapter 1: Islanders
07:49
Venice (Unabridged): She was never loved.
06:14
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 2: The Venetian Way
06:23
Venice (Unabridged): The Venetian custom is the criterion of good sense…
06:39
Venice (Unabridged): This self esteem makes for narrow horizons and short focuses.
06:55
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 3: Strong Men
06:11
Venice (Unabridged): They are sharp businessmen still.
05:39
Venice (Unabridged): The Republic was sustained, too…
08:44
Venice (Unabridged): Under the Republic none of these working men had any share…
05:35
Venice (Unabridged): At the other end of the scale there remain the aristocrats…
07:24
Venice (Unabridged): The patrician was not allowed to refuse an appointment…
08:22
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 4: The Truth Not to Everyone
06:37
Venice (Unabridged): More casual pilferers haunt the water-buses…
07:23
Venice (Unabridged): He might also represent the Venetian Nosey Parker…
04:06
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 5: On Women
06:08
Venice (Unabridged): Other classes of Venetian women were not so sheltered…
07:12
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 6: Minor Venetians
05:11
Venice (Unabridged): Even more, I sometimes think, do the Venetians love…
04:49
Venice (Unabridged): One Venetian cat became an international celebrity.
04:21
Venice (Unabridged): There used to be many horses and mules in Venice…
06:52
Venice (Unabridged): There are many dogs in Venice.
06:56
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 7: Pageantries and Panaceas
02:23
Venice (Unabridged): The most memorable of all such galas was arranged…
04:10
Venice (Unabridged): Venice is not quite so sumptuous nowadays…
07:29
Venice (Unabridged): Half a century later another Patriarch of Venice became Pope…
Venice (Unabridged): Venice used to be a great place for love potions…
06:36
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 8: Poi Christiani
05:47
Venice (Unabridged): 'Are you a Venetian?' I once asked a saintly Dominican…
07:41
Venice (Unabridged): Today the worst is probably over.
06:34
Venice (Unabridged): If the Venetians are not always devout, they are usually kind.
05:56
Venice (Unabridged): There is a trace of the morbid to this soft-heartedness.
06:10
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 9: Minorities
08:53
Venice (Unabridged): At the other end of the city…
07:17
Venice (Unabridged): For a taste of Venetian Englishry…
05:02
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 10: Melancholia
07:00
Venice (Unabridged): No wonder Napoleon swept her aside.
Venice (Unabridged): Since then she has been a port, an art centre…
07:33
Venice (Unabridged): The City – Chapter 11: Ex Island
06:45
Venice (Unabridged): Away to the west, beyond the railway station…
07:13
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 12: Streets Full of Water
06:31
Venice (Unabridged): The canals, some of which have ninth-century origins…
05:03
Venice (Unabridged): A wonderful variety of boats has been developed…
05:45
Venice (Unabridged): The water transport of Venice is easy-going…
06:09
Venice (Unabridged): Different indeed is the character of the gondola…
Venice (Unabridged): A gondola is very expensive to build…
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 13: Stones of Venice
Venice (Unabridged): The lanes are often beguilingly unpredictable…
02:40
Venice (Unabridged): Long centuries ago the Venetians, looking around them…
07:27
Venice (Unabridged): Many stories testify to the pride…
Venice (Unabridged): Do not think, either, that Venice has no gardens.
05:31
Venice (Unabridged): The early Venetian bridges were used by horses and mules…
07:09
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 14: City Services
05:51
Venice (Unabridged): There are a few traffic notices in Venice…
08:43
Venice (Unabridged): Everybody dies in Venice.
Venice (Unabridged): Marvellously evocative is a winter funeral in Venice.
06:16
Venice (Unabridged): The marble-workers who erect the fancy mausoleums…
05:48
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 15: Age
06:20
Venice (Unabridged): When the most famous of them all fell down…
05:22
Venice (Unabridged): In a matter of moments it was all over…
04:54
Venice (Unabridged): Today many a campanile is supported…
07:47
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 16: The Bestiary
04:22
Venice (Unabridged): An altogether different, gentler kind of derangement…
08:57
Venice (Unabridged): Bestial, too, were the men of Venice…
07:56
Venice (Unabridged): Venice scarcely needs fables to strengthen her strain…
04:47
Venice (Unabridged): On San Michele is buried the French painter Leopold Robert…
05:36
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 17: Arabesques
06:42
Venice (Unabridged): More often, though, the allusions of Venice are arabesque…
07:38
Venice (Unabridged): In Venice you can enjoy the pleasures of the Orient…
07:11
Venice (Unabridged): Venice is no longer the supreme city of music…
05:16
Venice (Unabridged): There is no drink that feels organic to Venice…
06:41
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 18: The Seasons
Venice (Unabridged): All is dank, swirling, desolate.
Venice (Unabridged): And then one morning the spring arrives.
Venice (Unabridged): With a thud, a babble of voices and a crinkle…
Venice (Unabridged): Confronted by these multitudes…
Venice (Unabridged): But though crowds do not suit some parts of the city…
05:54
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 19: New on the Rialto
05:42
Venice (Unabridged): In its great centuries Venice was more than a mere spectacle…
05:06
Venice (Unabridged): Above the stalls of San Giacomo…
04:52
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 20: Curiosities
06:06
Venice (Unabridged): Venice is thickly encrusted with the stranger ornaments…
07:02
Venice (Unabridged): Venetian art, too, is rich in curiosities.
Venice (Unabridged): In the adjacent picture, another naval battle…
04:57
Venice (Unabridged): Then there are the curiosities of politics and diplomacy.
Venice (Unabridged): Other nooks of Venetian oddity are almost out of range…
02:56
Venice (Unabridged): A pair of baby seagulls, perhaps, lives beneath the poop…
02:33
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 21: To the Prodigies
07:10
Venice (Unabridged): Consider next the southern ward of Dorsoduro…
05:58
Venice (Unabridged): But when all is said, and nearly all is done…
05:43
Venice (Unabridged): No two churches are starker, pinker, loftier…
05:44
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 22: Purposes
08:55
Venice (Unabridged): The prime advantages of Venice lie, as both sides agree…
Venice (Unabridged): The Lagoon – Chapter 23: Seventh Sea
Venice (Unabridged): Thus the lagoon is partly an artificial phenomenon…
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 24: The Office of a Moat
07:53
Venice (Unabridged): It was eight centuries before the next enemy set foot…
06:49
Venice (Unabridged): Thus the city has been spared the worst of war…
09:02
Venice (Unabridged): Out beside the great sea-gates…
03:10
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 25: Navigation
06:01
Venice (Unabridged): Like the canals of the city, the navigational channels…
05:12
Venice (Unabridged): Another new canal, to the north of Venice…
03:55
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 26: On the Edge
07:30
Venice (Unabridged): Progress, though, has recently struck Cavallino…
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 27: Island Towns
07:18
Venice (Unabridged): Certainly it is a building of symbolic significance…
Venice (Unabridged): Many other islands of the lagoon have had their eras…
Venice (Unabridged): Very different is the spirit of Murano…
05:20
Venice (Unabridged): All this is a pity…
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 28: Holy Waters
Venice (Unabridged): In the museum upstairs there is a fine Egyptian mummy…
06:24
Venice (Unabridged): San Lazzaro is always on the move.
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 29: Dead and Alive
06:29
Venice (Unabridged): Other inshore islands are less haunted…
08:04
Venice (Unabridged): Mazzorbo is a backwater of quite another kind.
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 30: The Sacred Bulwarks
05:21
Venice (Unabridged): Beside the porto, and visible far out to sea…
04:24
Venice (Unabridged): Among these old and mellowed things…
Venice (Unabridged): The gusto of the Lido fades as you sail southwards…
05:07
Venice (Unabridged): Chapter 31: Lost
08:24
Venice (Unabridged): Embarkation
04:53
Venice (Unabridged): All this strikes me as odd…
07:21
Venice (Unabridged): It is partly a matter of texture.
04:29
by Sebastian Comberti
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