This is a list to start with. The reccomended section will be updated!
Required:
Venice, a Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1973). Link to Amazon
(An alternative to this which you could substitute is the longer and more nobility-focused John Julius Norwich (aka Lord Norwich). A History of Venice (New York, Vintage, 1989) Link to Amazon. Patronizing and Pompous, but with a good vision into the various noble personages etc. which Lane excludes for a more popular approach.)
Reccomended:
Venice Against the Sea: A City Beseiged, by John Keahey (New York, Thomas Donne, 2002) Link to Amazon
Venice Through Murder Mysteries:
Micheal Dibdin, Dead Lagoon (New York, Vintage, 1996). Link to Amazon
Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice (New York, HarperTorch, 1995) and sequels
Link to Amazon
Venice and Death:
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (many editions including Vintage, 1996) Link to Amazon
Posted by demonchaux at June 3, 2004 04:02 PM