Review 'His book is most enjoyable and should appeal not only to the historian but to the interested visitor of these two beautiful cities.' The Guardian Review 'His book is most enjoyable and should appeal not only to the historian but to the interested visitor of these two beautiful cities.' The Guardian Product Description Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Ve...(展开全部)

Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early modern Europe.

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had ot...(展开全部)

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had ot...(展开全部)

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, "The Judge". Gorgeous, feisty Molly had ot...(展开全部)

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, "The Judge". Gorgeous, feisty Molly had ot...(展开全部)

Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice A History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for over a thousand years as one of the world's busiest and most powerful city states, until its fall at the hands of Napoleon i...(展开全部)

"Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline."--'Speculum.'

△著者简介 弗雷德里克•C. 莱恩（Frederic C. Lane，1900—1984），美国历史学家，毕业于哈佛大学，曾任教于明尼苏达大学、约翰•霍普金斯大学，曾任意大利历史研究学会主席、美国历史学会主席、经济史学会主席、国际经济史学会主席，还是《经济史学刊》编审、美国艺术与科学院院士、美国中世纪史学会会士，获得1980年的国际伽利略奖。 他专注于研究威尼斯共和国以及航海活动，著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯船舶与造船者》（Venetian ships and shipbuilders of the Renaissance）、《威尼斯商人安德烈亚•巴尔巴里戈，1418—1449》（Andrea Barbarigo，merchant of Venice，1418-1449）、《威尼斯社会与经济史研究》（Studies in Venetian social...(展开全部)