Only Venice. Images of Italy XXI

A unique book about an incredible city. The Venetian past did not disappear, the eternal beauty of fresh, like "high water", from the Rialto bridge, the voices of the Kurtyazanok and the cries of Nicolotti, fighting with Castellani, are heard. Here masks are more than individuals, and skeletons are more than the cabinets, here changes the map of the world to the blind birth to Dandolo and reigns indestructible Byzantine, who forever infected Venice, Grabia Constantinople. Here are the crowds of tourists and the deadly deserted, the tall slaves-Slavs and the gangsters-Crusaders, Vivaldi and Titian, Gozzi and Tintoretto, Dyagilev and Brodsky, Venetian avant-garde of the XV century, the ancient skyscrapers of the Venetian ghetto, shimmering gold smalt, a multicolored clink of Murano glass, green smell of the sea In Kannarezho and Rio. And the inecilious, unattricible desire to return to the city equal to which in the world there is no