This book is an introduction to the vernacular or ''minor'' architecture of the villages of the Venetian lagoon excluding the historic centre of the city itself. This 1989 study provides an authoritative account of their architectural style and development and a companion volume to Dr Goy''s Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon (1985). In a broadly based and fully illustrated discussion the author aims to show how certain often palatial architectural forms found in the Venetian metro