Venice : fragile city 1797-1997. / txt
Margaret Plant.
- x, 550 p. ill. 29 cm. book
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-531) and index.
Contents: Acknowledgements ix -- Introduction 9 -- Part I 7 -- 1 'The lion of Venice will lift his paws from the earth and leave them but little on the ocean': The end of the Republic 9 -- A Venetian enlightenment? 10 -- The foreign view 21 -- The end of the Republic 25 -- The municipality 29 -- The work of public instruction 32 -- The end of the municipality 35 -- Spoliation 36 -- Elegies for the Republic 39 -- 2 Caged lion: Austrian and French rule, 1798–1814 43 -- Austrian rule, 1798–1806 43 -- French governance: Prince Eugène de Beauharnais 48 -- Urban change: The decrees of 1806 50 -- The Arsenale and the port 50 -- French writers 53 -- Napoleon's grand tour and the Royal decree, 1807 56 -- Public spaces: Via Eugenia and the Public Gardens 59 -- Preservation and patrimony 61 -- The Island cemetery 65 -- The Royal Palace 65 -- Canova and the Venetians 71 -- The Ateneo and the Accademia 74 -- Rossini's premières 76 -- The blockade (1813–1814) and the fall of Napoleon 77 -- 3 Venice in the theatre of Europe: Second Austrian rule, 1814–1848 81 -- The return of the horses 81 -- Hardship, and the death of Canova 84 -- Calumny: Darù's history of the Republic 87 -- The theatre of betrayal 89 -- The Bravo at large 95 -- The city in water 97 -- Custodians of the Republic 99 -- 'Ammiglioramenti': The improvements in Venice 106 -- The city in love 111 -- The city of music 116 -- Panoramic city 117 -- 4 'Venice will resist the Austrians at any cost': Modernisation, revolution, resistance 121 -- 'No one enters Venice as a stranger' 124 -- Ruskin's Stones 131 -- Risorgimento 134 -- The Scientific Congress, 1847 136 -- The revolution of 1848–1849 138 -- The Austrians return 145 -- Modernisation 146 -- Tourism and the fashion for bathing 149 -- Passive resistance 152 -- Art for the Risorgimento 155 -- 5 Venice in Italy: After 1866 159 -- Venice to Vienna 161 -- Austria and venezianità 162 -- Late betrayals 163 -- The urgency of modernisation 168 -- Industrialisation 173 -- The Arsenale in United Italy 174 -- Glass and lace 176 -- The loss of history and the visual arts 180 -- Tourism 182 -- The restoration debate 185 -- The polemics of conservation 188 -- Past and present, Molmenti and Favretto 190 -- Disappearing Venice and the custodians of the past 193 -- 6 Love, art and death in Fin-de-Siècle Venice 195 -- Wagner's death in Venice 195 -- After Wagner: The Lagunenstadt 197 -- Verdi and Otello 199 -- Love/death 200 -- The Fortuny phenomenon 204 -- D'Annunzio's City of Fire 206 -- Venise le Rouge: Safeguarding the picturesque 208 -- Venezianità 212 -- City of Modern Art: The Cosmopolis 215 -- Vienna/Venice 223 -- Turn of the century: Visitor Proust 224 -- Cardboard cities 225 -- Part 2 231 -- 7 The heavy past: From the turn of the century to the First World War 233 -- The fall of the Campanile 234 -- The case of modern architecture: Gothic victory 239 -- The Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte and Venetian painters 244 -- Forging a new Venice: D'Annunzio, Rilke and Baron Corvo 250 -- The new art of the movies 254 -- Housing, health and the Lido 256 -- Dying on the Lido: Thomas Mann 259 -- The Futurists attack 261 -- Foreign custodians: Simmel, Hofmannsthal, Apollinaire, Monet and Ezra Pound 264 -- 8 The years of the Winged Lion: 1914–1940 271 -- The First World War: D'Annunzio's Nocturne 271 -- The creation of Porto Marghera, and early Fascism 276 -- Urban planning, 1920s and 1930s 278 -- A culture of bridges 282 -- The city of old men 285 -- Ezra Pound's Cantos 289 -- Le Corbusier 292 -- The Biennale and the Casino 294 -- New museums 304 -- The Accademia Gallery and Carlo Scarpa 307 -- Celluloid Venices and Franco Pasinetti 309 -- 9 After the war: The impossible rebuilding 311 -- Venice endangered 311 -- The resistance 311 -- Harry's Bar: Ernest Hemingway and Evelyn Waugh 312 -- The new painting 324 -- The Biennale restored 327 -- The transparent and the opaque: Glass 319 -- Music and painting: Luigi Nono and Emilio Vedova 322 -- Filmed on location 326 -- French bad faith: Jean-Paul Sartre 334 -- Psycho geography 335 -- The sounds of San Marco: Michel Butor and Stravinsky 337 -- The English aesthetic: Adrian Stokes 338 -- Mapping the old city: Domestic Venice 339 -- Urban planning: Giuseppe Samonà and 'The School of Venice' 342 -- Carlo Scarpa: The Venetian architect 345 -- Modernism blocked 349 -- 10 Dead or dying: Responses to the flood 355 -- 3 November 1966 355 -- In defence of Marghera 358 -- Foreign death knells 362 -- Calvino's Invisible Cities and Palazzeschi's Invisible Doge 364 -- P. M. Pasinetti: Expatriate writer 367 -- Painted letters to Palladio, and Serene Waves 368 -- Comic-strip Venice: Hugo Pratt 370 -- Fictional deaths 371 -- Escaping Venice: Aldo Rossi's Analogous City and Manfredo Tafuri's Histories 376 -- Architectural fantasies: Designs for Cannaregio 378 -- The new Biennales 381 -- Cinematic adventurers: Don Giovanni, Casanova and James Bond 385 -- 11 The 1980s: The city that would be modern 389 -- The incomplete city 390 -- Mapped from above 392 -- The return of Carnival 393 -- Aldo Rossi's Theatre of the World 395 -- The Biennale in the 1980s 397 -- Housing 402 -- Politics and redeployment 406 -- Luigi Nono, composer, and Massimo Cacciari, philosopher 410 -- Popular Venice 414 -- Madonna takes Venice 414 -- Pursuit 415 -- Virgins and vampires 417 -- Gore Vidal, Pink Floyd and the Crisis of Tourism 420 -- 12 The double millennium: The end of the century, the end of Venice 423 -- The double flood: Tourism and Acqua Alta 423 -- The state of the Lagoon: Pollution and dredging 428 -- Redevelopment 430 -- Access 431 -- Employment, population decline and regional politics 433 -- The critique of the tourist 437 -- Patrimony and survival 438 -- The Biennale 441 -- Foreign perceptions 443 -- Crime in the Lagoon 445 -- More deaths 446 -- Ending the cult: Too much Venice 448 -- The city and the Lagoon of the past: From the present 451 -- The fire at La Fenice, 1996 452 -- The assault on the Campanile, 12 May 1997 455 -- After two hundred years 457 -- Notes 460 -- Photograph credits 532 -- Index 533 --