Only Venice. Images of Italy XXI. Ippolitov A.

A unique book about an incredible city. The Venetian past did not disappear, the eternal beauty is fresh, like “tall water”, the voices of the courtesans and the cries of Nikolotti, fighting with Castellani, are heard from the Rialto bridge. There are more masks than faces, and there are more skeletons than cabinets, here changes the map of the world of the blind dog Dandolo and the indestructible Byzantium reigns, which Venice was forever infected, robbing Constantinople.

Here are crowds of tourists and dead deserts, tall slaves-Slavs and Banditors-Crosses, Vivaldi and Titian, Gozzi and Tintoretto, Diaghilev and Brodsky, Venetian avant-garde of the 15th century, ancient skyscrapers of the Venetian ghetto, flickering gold, smalu The ringing of Muranian glass, the green smell of the sea in Canncredo and Rio. And the inescapable, indecent desire to return to a city that is not equal in the world.