Venice

<p>This richly textured work examines Venetians' Venice-ness and the city's humanity. A cultural history wide in scope and original in conception it explores how people have been shaped by Venice and in turn have shaped the city.  Meet culture heroes whose defects have helped define Venice's myth and fugitives from the city's splendor such as El Greco. Venice's prisoners numbered cloistered women the mad and the Jews of the Ghetto. People living in close durable symbiosis with the city include Titian and those fugitives from self who sought wholeness in Venice include Stravinsky.</p>