The world Venice made
Print this article What do the logarithmic calculator, crystal glasses, ballistic algebra, and the Frank Capra movie It Happened One Night have in common? The answer to this apparently obscure quiz is provided in Meredith Small’s delightful and erudite study of one of the best-and-least-known cities in the world: Venice. “Like most tourists,” admits Small, “I had thought of Venice as a pretty place in an unusual setting,” but her research for Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization led her to a very different conclusion: “Venice is a place of ...
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