Venice
The Anthology Guide
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Venice
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Narrated by:
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Milton Grundy
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By:
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Milton Grundy
About this listen
Venice: The Anthology Guide - Sixth Edition. Written and narrated by Milton Grundy. Audio recorded at the home of Milton Grundy, London, summer, 2022. Produced for audio by John Escolme at Monitor Production in Sound. Quotations produced by Sound Understanding.
The audiobook: Venice: The Anthology Guide is the perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is unlike any other guide, since it conducts visitors around Venice using the observations and opinions of famous writers and art historians to enlighten them.
Among the people it quotes are Vasari, Ruskin, Berenson, Wittkower, Dickens, Henry James, A.J.C. Hare, Otto Demus, Ernst Gombrich, Michael Levey, Cecil Gould, Hugh Honour, James Morris and Alan Bennett, voiced by well-known actors Zeb Soanes (BBC Radio 4 and Classic FM), Carole Boyd (BBC Radio 4, The Archers), John Telfer (Bergerac, Without Motive, Dodgem), and John Chancer (Casino Royale, Top Coppers, Assassin's Creed: Gold).
Contents:
Walk 1: San Giorgio - San Marco - Piazza - Correr Museum - Ducal Palace.
Walk 2: Santa Maria della Salute - Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Accademia.
Walk 3: San Zaccaria - Arsenal - San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.
Walk 4: Querini-Stampalia - San Zanipolo - Miracoli - Santi Apostoli.
Walk 5: San Rocco - San Pantaleone - Carmini - Angelo Raffaele - San Bastian - Ca’Rezzonico.
Walk 6: Santo Stefano - Rialto - San Cassiano - Ca’d’Oro.
Walk 7: San Marcuola - Ghetto - Sant’Alvise - Madonna dell’Orto.
Excursion 1.
Excursion 2.
Excursion 3.
The Epilogue.
Critic reviews
Geographical Magazine: ‘...[it] provides an opportunity to see the city as it was and is today. Using this guide, you can scour the waterways and be enlightened by well-known writers and art-historians on practically every aspect surrounding this architecturally and culturally rich city...a brilliant anthological guide to Venice, which informs the user of the best walks through [it].’"
London Review of Books, on 6th print edition: ‘Milton Grundy’s brilliant guide to the sights of Venice, newly published in an expanded sixth edition, is an anthology of some of the best and most illuminating writings about the city and its treasures, arranged around seven walks and three excursions. From Vasari to Alan Bennett, the chorus of voices from past and present provides a supremely cultured accompaniment for strolling around the monuments.’