The Makers of Venice Doges, Conquerors, Painters, and Men of Letters Oliphant

The Makers of VeniceDoges, Conquerors, Painters, and Men of Letters\nAuthor(s): Margaret Oliphant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108054645, 978-1108054645\nSynopsis\nAn influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant [tel] is best remembered for her Chronicles of Carlingford - novels which sketch the religious and domestic politics of a provincial community - particularly the most popular in the cycle, Miss Marjoribanks [tel], and for her many book reviews, essays and serialised fiction for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Her output included ninety-eight novels, some fifty short stories, works of biography and non-fiction, and a series of cultural histories of European cities, of which this is the second. Originally published in 1887, the book paints a compelling picture of the cultural development of the great city of Venice during the middle ages and the Renaissance through bi.