A collection of essays which celebrate Warwick's long connection with the city of Venice - not least its occupation of the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, which has become the University's permanent Italian base.

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Contents:

• Nigel Thrift: Foreword

• Susan Bassnett FRSL: A Very Venetian Affair

• Louise Bourdua: Lunch on Expenses: Travelling Friars in the 14th Century Veneto

• Humfrey Butters FRHS: Florence and Venice: A Tale of Two Cities

• Ann Hallamore Caesar: Americans Writing Venice: Edith Wharton and Henry James

• Lady Frances Clarke CBE: Venice in Peril

• Jonathan Davies FRHS: ‘Goliardia’ – Popular Graduation Festivities in Venice

• Michael Hulse: Writers’ Venice

• Sir Richard Lambert: The Numbers Sound Terrible

• Marie-Louise Lillywhite: Working Miracles: The Statue of the Madonna dell’Orto

• Paul Manser: We Felt the Spirit of the Renaissance

• Cristina Marinetti: ‘Andemo bever un’ombra’: the Venetian Dialect

• Richard Parker: Making Music in Venice

• Loredana Polezzi: Sixteen Cats on One Tree

• Carol Rutter: Shakespeare’s Venice

• Sarah Shalgosky: The Venice Biennale

• Margaret Shewring and Ronnie Mulryne: A Venetian Evening at the Palazzo

• Nicolas Whybrow: Performing Venice

• A Venetian Feast